Archives: Projects

This sculpture recalls the histories of textile industry and cargo shipping that once dominated the region, taking the form of steel spheres suspended from tall poles suggestive of the cargo masts that operated at the site. The reflective spheres capture the surrounding landscape and the viewer’s own image within their surfaces.

A portrait of the heavens rendered on a catenary dome of fabric, this work depicts the sky above the antipode of Minneapolis. Suspended atop a seven-story glass tower, it functions as an urban-scaled mirror ball, reflecting light by way of more than 500,000 stars made of mirror-polished aluminum.

This site-specific playscape for all ages explores non-conventional uses of material through the technique of the pour. Tinted urethane foam, layered and cast in place, produces monumental structures with smooth, colorful interiors and textured exteriors, balancing control and spontaneity.

Winner of the American Architecture Award in 2024

Six fused glass panels depicting olive tree bark line the Olive View Restorative Care Village, honoring the olive groves that shaped the region’s agricultural history and the values of healing and reconciliation they represent. The imagery was generated by a digital algorithm designed specifically for the community and fabricated in collaboration with Judson Studios, the oldest family-run stained-glass maker in the United States.

Southern live oaks, icons of the American South, are depicted as they might appear lining an idyllic New Orleans street in this two-sided mural spanning a children’s play space. Thousands of transparent acrylic squares function like pieces of stained glass, refracting sunlight and projecting color while drawing children in with a video game aesthetic.

Inspired by Utah’s mesmerizing landscapes, this suspended work is based on an aerial image of the shore of the Great Salt Lake. The image is abstracted into a stack of horizontal bands, capturing the essence of the landscape in a layered, suspended form.

Hovering in a building entrance, this work’s intricacy yields a visual complexity reminiscent of fluid dynamic systems. Its appearance shifts continuously with the viewer’s movement, reading as a solid disk from below, a delicate form of liquid droplets from the exterior, and dissolving between geometry and wash depending on one’s vantage point.

Inspired by landscape painting of the American Regionalists, this installation maps a composition of colors from an imaginary Kansas prairie onto over 20,000 segments of painted stainless-steel ball chain. The courthouse and its landscape extend through the negative space between the chains, becoming integral aspects of the work.

Depicting historic streetcars and contemporary trains and buses, this work celebrates the innovation of Los Angeles’s transit systems past, present, and future. Comprising over thirty thousand translucent acrylic chips across 83 panels, its colors shift with changing sunlight and viewer perspective, evoking the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the city.

Thousands of segments of chain, precisely arranged in a single gesture cutting through the entry hall, form a monumental installation suggestive of a beam of brightly colored light. Its colors transform with changing lighting conditions and the movement of the viewer, while the negative space between the chains extends views to the ceiling above and the environment beyond.