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Distributed across a series of light wells that increase in size as visitors move from parking to terminal, this work unfolds during the passage by foot and is inherently linked to one’s journey. The hanging forms create a colonnade that crescendos or tapers depending on the traveler’s direction, evoking the experience of moving along a palm-tree-lined boulevard.

Serving as both a functional bench and a commemoration of the life of a local surfer, this work employs manufacturing techniques and aesthetic characteristics unique to the sport of surfing.

Though clearly synthetic, this sculpture of fiberglass rods draws its structure and materiality from biological systems such as the growing tip of a plant, branching networks of capillaries, or the surface of a leaf. The work invites multiple interpretations depending on the viewer and their relationship to the natural world.

Developed collaboratively with university scientists, this installation represents the Phylogenetic Tree of Life, illustrating evolutionary relationships among all organisms across three domains: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eucaryota. Comprising five and a half miles of chain in 96 variations, it reflects the iterative nature of scientific understanding and the interconnectedness of all living things.

A kind of urban-scaled graphic equalizer, this installation rigs geophones to the structure of an elevated train platform and outputs the signal to a large screen below the tracks. The system registers the approach and arrival of trains as well as the footsteps of commuters walking on the platform.

Installed in Pittsburgh Market Square, this piece is an abstracted representation of Amsterdam Island, the furthest inhabitable place on earth from Pittsburgh. Visitors are able to look into craters on the surface and view real images from Amsterdam Island.

Both an iconic sculpture and a delicate atmosphere, this work swirls through a building atrium by way of sophisticated algorithmic computation combined with proprietary fabrication processes. The extreme intricacy of the piece suggests breathtaking natural phenomena such as fluid dynamics or aurora borealis.

Created to float as an ambient atmosphere above views of the surrounding mountains, this work shifts between recognizable geometric forms and a fluid-like vapor depending on the viewer’s vantage point. Integrating complex digital computation with traditional textile patterning techniques, it reshapes architectural space with a minimal use of material.

Based on the Japanese art of Kintsugi, this project reuses the cracked paved driveways in front of the Barracks buildings as part of the living history of Fort Barry, part of The Commons at Headlands Center of the Arts. The cracked pieces are documented, trimmed, and reunited with colored terrazzo, illuminating repair and decay as moments in the ongoing history of the site.