My Projects

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  As Rose as Rain

  The bench, supported by four compression springs, rocks, and sways. It’s possible to rock gently or to go for a ride, much the same way kids enjoy a spring rider in a playground. The dynamics of compression springs and their uneven spacing means the structure responds differently depending on where one sits and how many people are sitting on the bench. The artwork’s sloped canopy includes nine translucent-colored polycarbonate skylights and rocks along with the bench. On sunny days, the canopy’s shadow and color projections on the ground move in sync with the bench. 2021 CODAawards Top 100! Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, Colorado Springs 8’4” x 16’ x 16’ Painted & unpainted stainless steel, Koda XT (polycarbonate)

  2020-project 2021 CODAawards Entry CODAawards 2021 Top 100

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  Babble, Pummel, and Pride II

  Babble, Pummel, and Pride, II is sited in a picturesque corner of the Art Omi wetland pond and creates a unique gathering space. The roofed structure with its swinging benches and fountain pumping water from the pond onto the roofs gives viewers a chance to be lulled by the babble of the fountain, but also threatened by the possibility of entering the spray zone. A true folly in the landscape. Art Omi, Ghent, NY 25’ x 36’ x 10.5’ Corten & stainless steel, glass, water

  2022 CODAawards Entry

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  Belly Yup

  The sculpture is animated by both people swaying on the bench and seemingly being frozen in a state of collapse—the columns are bowed, the canopy is tilted, and the layers of glass are out of alignment. The artwork employs objects we regularly see in public spaces—pipes, canopies, and benches—and assembles them in a way that changes our experience to create new social interactions. Finally, the artwork is an iconic destination and landmark amid a micro-park adjacent to the trailhead for the 7th-10th Street segment of the Cross Charlotte Trail. 8.5' x 11.5' x 13' Painted and unpainted stainless steel, corten steel, laminated glass, LED spotlight

  2023 CODAawards Entry

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  Centipenty

  Centipenty, an iconic destination in front of the Wing Luke Elementary School, is a teeter-tottering spring rider that bounces, sways, pivots, and makes gong sounds. The concept’s genesis was the once prevalent seesaw and popular Chinese children’s playground games that start with children lining up in a row. Though colossal, it’s explicitly designed for elementary school-age children. The 24 seats, in 3 sizes, derive their dimensions from the Wing Luke classroom chairs for kindergartners through 5th graders, who activate the movement and sound with their exuberant participation.

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  Chroma Booster

  Chroma Booster sits at the focal point of the new pedestrian plaza between the Chihuahua’s Triple-A Baseball Stadium and the Music and Convention Centers. The 55-foot-tall painted steel fountain, which includes mist, water, and light, celebrates the controlled chaos of the industrial infrastructure that both surrounds the site and dots the Texas landscape. The mist, which invites people to be engulfed in its cool, moist air, is in a constant state of flux, sensitive to the slightest changes in wind, temperature, and humidity. User-controlled push-button valves at the base of the sculpture operate a foot-cooling water nozzle, and three overhead showerheads allow visitors to douse themselves with a refreshing shower. At night, lights illuminate the stainless steel collars and the wafting clouds of mist. 2016 Year in Review, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts 2017 IES Illumination Award of Merit Pedestrian plaza between the El Paso Chihuahua’s Baseball Stadium and the Music and Convention Centers 55’ x 8’ x 8’ (variable) Painted steel, stainless steel, mist, water, programmed LEDs

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  Coo Lot with Plum Pipes

  Coo Lot with Plum Pipes transforms two empty residential lots by creating a new jaunty entrance to R.J. Taylor Park and a spot for neighbors to saunter, meet, and gather. Referencing the nearby Nottingham Water Treatment Plant, the artwork is a 135-foot labyrinthine of water pipes with a swaying bench, horizontal pipes that provide bench-like seating, and light that spills out of the vertical pipes like water to illuminate the path and trees at night. R.J. Taylor Park, Cleveland, OH 12’ x 18’ x 135’ Painted galvanized steel, stainless steel, LEDs

  2022 CODAawards Entry

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  Cypress Landing

  Cypress Landing, a new children’s play area at Zoo Miami, includes the 32’ tall misting and water-showering Cypress tree, Cypress knees, a 150’ mural (by Diana Kingsley), and the concession stand, playgrounds, landscaping, and design of the entire 10,000 sq. ft. children’s play area. Three of the knees have push buttons that each operate two water nozzles in the tree such that water streams down through the mist. Three other knees each have a push button and two water nozzles. The mist is in a constant state of flux, sensitive to the slightest changes in wind, temperature, and humidity, and can lower the air temperate by as much as 30°F. Zoo Miami 32’ x 100’ x 100’ (variable) Powder-coated stainless steel, mist, water, paint, wood, landscaping

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  Greenway Blueway Byway Skyway

  Greenway Blueway Byway Skyway, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, provides seating in the round on a painted steel platform cantilevered over the Yadkin River. Appearing like a discarded tentacle of a theme park ride, the work is engineered like a diving board, so that human movement gently rocks the platform above the water cascading over the rocks below. A playful hybrid of a bridge to nowhere, a scenic overlook, and a park bench, it’s been said to evoke the mood of a fireless campfire, where community and contemplation coexist effortlessly. Happy Valley Greenway, Lenoir, NC 13’ x 12’ x 52’ Galvanized and painted steel

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  I ought to

  I ought to is a trio of round stools capped by a circular corten steel and hand-cast glass concave canopy. The canopy is a witty conflation of the pedestrian and the sacred: a 19th century illuminated manhole cover enlarged to the size of a rose window, a standard feature of Gothic cathedrals. The glass casting method allows for idiosyncrasies in the glass (color, pattern, transparency, air bubbles) while ensuring that the shape is consistent. Small steel medallions and linear braids also adorn the underside of the canopy, much the same way they are used on manhole covers for both functional and decorative purposes. On rainy days, water drains from the center of the canopy through a 12-inch oculus, creating a diminutive passive water feature in the middle of the work. At night, a spotlight mounted on a nearby lamppost illuminates the glass. 2018 NYCxDesign Awards Outdoor/Urban Landscape Finalist Myrtle Avenue pedestrian plaza, Brooklyn, NY 9’ x 14’ x 14’ Corten, carbon, & stainless steel, cast iron, cast glass, LED spotlight

  2020-project

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  In Fields of Friends

  The sculpture—an architectural folly in the landscape—is suggestive of gentle amusement park rides, park bench hangs, and lazy afternoons, creating a landmark and a gathering place overlooking Frick Park’s Riverview Hill. Each of the three back-to-back benches rotates 120°, allowing, for example, an intimate conversation or a meditative view of the landscape. The cable and spring-mounted canopy sways on windy days. Riverview Hill, Frick Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15’ x 13’ x 13’ Painted steel, stainless steel

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  Nautical Swing

  Nautical Swing riffs on the architecture of the site’s former Navy base. The artwork provides a place where up to a dozen people can relax, converse, and enjoy the spectacular view of San Francisco, Oakland, and the San Francisco Bay while gently swaying on a circular bench —a park-bench/porch-swing hybrid. The perforated steel canopy with its large oculus isolates a radiant view of the skies above. 2016 Year in Review, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts Hunters Point Shipyard Residential Development, San Franciso 16’ x 20’ x 20’ Galvanized, painted & stainless stee

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  One Puck Hollow

  Integrated into the landscape adjacent to the entrance of Calgary’s Great Plains Hockey Facility, One Puck Hollow is the Facility’s third arena. The micro-amphitheater provides a gathering space for spectators and players. It references key features of the hockey rink— the face-off circle (the red rail is the same diameter as the face-off circle), the black face-off spot, and the boards separating the rink from the spectator. One Puck Hollow can range from a subtle infiltration in the landscape on a warm summer day to a vivid splash of color on a cold snow-covered winter night (Calgary’s first public art to leverage snow as an element of the work). The LED lights (hidden under the upper rail) illuminate the grass/snow below the rail and gradually change color based on the day’s average temperate in Calgary. Great Plains Hockey Facility, Calgary 4’ x 60’ x 60’ Painted & unpainted stainless steel, programmed LED lights, snow (seasonal)

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  Open Channel Flow

  Open Channel Flow mimics in style and color Water Department structures that dot the Houston landscape. By using the stainless steel hand pump, one can experience a refreshing “shower” as water rains down from the showerhead 25 feet above. Simultaneously, and as a result of pumping water through the pipes, yellow and blue beacons on top of the 60-foot structure flash, signaling people as far away as downtown that another person has doused themselves with a refreshing, albeit very brief, shower. Selected for the 2010 Year in Review, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston, TX 60’ x 33’ x 45’ Painted steel, stainless steel, water, LED beacons

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  Outer Golly

  Outer Golly—a white wobbling 400-ft fence surrounding a playground, dotted with discarded machine parts and tools, bits and bobs, odds and ends, and various knick-knackery: a cosmic array of fence pickets. The humorous collection of objects each has its own story to tell. Culliton Park, Lancaster, PA 4’ x .25’ x 400’ Powder-coated steel & cast iron

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  The Huddle

  Integrated with the site and the architecture, The Huddle addresses the school’s need for a shaded area outside the confines of the school building for parents, children, and staff to meet. Supporting the notion of universal access and meeting the needs of wheelchair-bound children, the gently swaying bench is designed for both wheelchairs and traditional seating. The streaks of sunlight on the ground help guide partially sighted children to the school’s front entrance. New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Albuquerque, NM 10’ x 12’ x 22’ Stainless steel, powder-coated aluminum

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  Three Friends Floating

  Three super-sized ring buoys pierce the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center's walls, such that they appear on the exterior and interior of the entrance vestibule. A 10.5-ft diameter pink buoy floats vertically above your head in the northwest corner. A 9.25-ft diameter lemon-yellow buoy enters through the eastern vestibule and lobby walls. A 5-ft diameter Kelly green buoy hovers close to the ground, providing seating both inside and outside. After dark, the vestibule becomes a beacon as parts of its upper half are bathed in an animated blue light wave pattern mimicking the view looking up through the surface of a swimming pool. The ring buoys and, after dark, the blue water ripple projection is integrated with the architecture so that the vestibule itself becomes an essential part of the artwork. By adorning and animating the entranceway both inside and out, day and night, this once utilitarian transitional space becomes iconic, welcoming, and fun, with a gentle reminder to play safe. 22’ x 27’ x 22’ Fiberglass, stainless steel, reflective decal, wave pattern light projectors

  2023 CODAawards Entry

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  Upper Blush

  The canopy teeters like a seesaw as people sway on the benches. When it rains, water is funneled from the roof through drainpipes to troughs on the ground and then to the adjacent rain garden. By teetering the canopy, those on the benches can determine from which pipe the water drains. The muse for Upper Blush is an issue critical to Norfolk’s future—rising tides. The circles of light on the ground created by the skylights reference the moon, and the teetering and swaying mimic the ebb and flow of the water. The human interaction that influences the balance and the flow of the water serves as a metaphor for larger issues associated with floodwater management. NEON District, Norfolk, VA 8.5’ x 16’ x 18’ Painted & stainless steel, wood, Lexan

  2021 CODAawards Entry

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  Woozy Blossom

  Planted among the bald cypress trees lining the sidewalk outside 21c Museum Hotel in Oklahoma City, this perforated Corten steel tree produces a continuous fog, engulfing visitors and passersby in its mist and allowing them to revel in its cool, moist air. The fog is in a constant state of flux, sensitive to the slightest changes in wind, temperature, and humidity. Simultaneously eerie, unexpected, and playful, Woozy Blossom transforms the urban exterior of 21c Oklahoma City into an ever-changing, otherworldly environment. The work, which offers a seductive invitation to interact, both complements and disrupts its surroundings: a tree among trees, its industrial materials and mechanics provide material reference to the history of this former factory site. 21c Museum Hotel, Oklahoma City 16’ x 9’ x 9’ (variable) Corten steel, mist, programmed LED lights