As an ocularist, she creates artificial eyes for patients born without eyes or for those who have lost them to accident or disease. She recently earned certification as a clinical anaplastologist and is training to become a certified ocularist. While most sculptors intend for their work to be seen and admired, Dougherty (CFA’11), an associate at Boston Ocular Prosthetics, Inc., hopes that this piece will go unnoticed. When it’s set, she’ll fill the mold with pigmented silicone to create an astonishingly lifelike final product. She pours a mixture of resin and artificial stone around the clay to form a mold. Kaylee Dougherty presses a sculpting spatula to clay, smoothing the contours of her morning’s work. This week, we feature some notable BU alumni. Twitter Facebook During the summer months, we are revisiting some of our favorite BU Today stories from the past year.
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