Sculpture

large scale • integrated site-specific • multimedia • public & private commissions 

BounceSplashSwim

110 x 15 x 7 feet • aluminum, stainless steel, fabricated steel, hand-blown glass
Percent for Art Commission • Genesee Hill Elementary School, Seattle, Washington

Inspired by the energtic sounds of elementary school recess, a bouncing ball sets off sound that is received by a wire model of the bones of the inner ear. Sound waves emanate to cause vibrations on the surface of a pool of water, from which glass fish swim. For me, this is a depiction of the ways we experience energies, how we perceive the world, and how these experiences generate ideas within us. However, Genesee Hill’s second grade class will tell you, ‘It’s a whale portal."

Root and Wing

architectural installation of 24 elements up to 24x24x30 inches • cast bronze, cast aluminum, hand-blown glass
Percent for Art commission • The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington

The maturation cycle of an imaginary life form takes place within the architecture of the common area of the science lab building. Secure in its colony, a seed sends out a root from within its protective shell. It hatches into a jellyfish-like entity with sensate tentacles, developing an embryonic form within its colorful glass pod. This stage of life is spent floating, alone. The embryo separates and is rooted once more with its kind. Yet this time it has eyes and becomes aware of itself and its surroundings. Roots shrink away as wings develop, as the creatures become aware of each other and gather together to take flight.

Sky Machine

60" x 180" x 72” • Laser-cut acrylic and welded aluminum
Percent for Art Commission • Clark College, Vancouver, Washington

Installation is in skylight of three-story atrium, located next to staircase allowing viewing from many angles and levels.  Sky Machine addresses one of the earliest forms of sophisticated technology, which still does our heavy lifting a thousand years later.

Urgent Messages

72" x 180" x 3" • Fused glass and fabricated steel
Percent for Art Commission • Clark College, Vancouver, Washington

Our lives are intertwined with technology whose mechanisms we barely understand. Likewise, we exist in bodies whose inner workings are a mystery. Urgent Messages draws a parallel of that separation between what we can experience directly, and what is happening continuously yet beyond our grasp.