Thread Borne
Dyed wool and cotton | 2024Using a combination of macramé and crochet techniques, the piece explores the multi-dimensional transformations that are the essential magic of fiber crafts. The installation suggests a surreal world where these normally human-made transformations might happen spontaneously. Dyed wool forms grow organically from the walls, ceiling, and floor. Thin tendrils emerge, spun from the solid mass, and then weave and knot themselves together, filling the space again in a new way. Extreme tension in the fiber keep the whole triangle shape suspended off the ground.
Mapped Points
Dyed wool and wood | 2018One hundred evenly spaced points were connected with custom dyed woolen yarn, designed in a gradient from green to pale yellow-green. The first set of points were closely spaced along the edge of a ceiling tile with the second wider set placed along a nearby banister. The connecting lines of yarn fanned out and twisted through the air, catching and reflecting the light from an existing overhead ceiling lamp.
Installated in the Fonseca Center at The Masters School.
Stair B
Lighting intervention | 2019In this three story stairwell, I placed lighting gels into existing fixtures, spanning the colors of the rainbow. Purple and blue start off at the basement level and the color gets warmer the higher one climbs, with deep red at the top floor.
Installated in the Fonseca Center at The Masters School.
Phylogenetic Tree
Plywood strips and dowels | 2016Strips of plywood were assembled into an abstraction of a tree, starting from one point by the window and branching in two every two feet. This installation was meant to sculpturally represent the diagrams often used by evolutionary biologists to chart the branching of species over time.
Installed in The Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center at Yale University.
DUCK
Paint and colored twine | 2016Spanning a small, irregularlly shaped hallway, this piece was composed of a painted graphic and its distorted mirror image on opposite walls. Connecting the two were matching colored lenghts of twine which passed through a “lens” in the middle of the hallway. The installation was meant to sculpturally represent ray tracing diagrams used by physistics to describe how reflected light passes through lens elements to form an image on the other side.
Installed in the Edgewood Sculpture Building at the Yale School of Art.
Tesseract
Wood and Metal | 2016One cube suspended with springs inside another. A partial 3D projection of a four dimentional tesseract.