Category: Public Art

Designed as bird habitat to replace removed ground cover at Lands End trailhead, the 172 foot brush sculpture references the natural topography of the site. The sculpture also prevents trailblazing and stands at the start of the new trail. Created in collaboration with the Audubon Society and the National Parks Service. Funded by The Golden…Continue Reading Lands End

Commissioned by the Mc Henry Library UC Santa Cruz to bring the staircase to code and prevent children falling between the banisters. The installation lines the spiral staircase at McHenry Library up five flights of stairs. Created in collaboration with UCSC students Commission: University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006Materials: 450 plexi glass panels, transparencies, steel,…Continue Reading Library Commision

Vacant Inventory was created for CESTA’s international symposium on WASTE in the Czech Republic. Vacant Inventory compared soaring land prices as the Czech Republic entered the EU and the SF Bay Area experienced the first Dot Com bubble. The video, installation and public project mapped land, value and need via drawings, video, installation and public…Continue Reading Vacant Inventory

Commissioned by The Tree the Arts Organization as a collaboration between the artist and the farming community. The work was built as a rejection of Monsanto’s policy to force farmers to buy genetically engineered seed. Holding the Future saves the central crop for next years sewing. Commission: Oregon, Illinois 2000…Continue Reading Holding The Future

Commissioned by ORLO, an Environmental Arts Organization, Come Closer was built on the invisible urban growth boundary line of a wetlands preserve in Portland, Oregon. Designed to represent the delicate balance between our needs for shelter and the fragility of the natural environment, the project disintegrated back without trace into the earth over time. Earth …Continue Reading Come Closer

Commissioned for the DISLOCATE 08 Festival of Locality and Technology, Japan, the interactive installation, audio tour and public project Are We There Yet? mapped the internal thoughts and memories of passengers above and below ground on the Yokohama subway. Stories, sounds and video excerpts were embedded on an interactive map (a hacked computer with 32…Continue Reading Are We There Yet?

Your Turn is a collaborative public project with CEC ArtsLink; the University of New Mexico, Eastern-European-Artist-in-Residence at SPARC Kristaps Gulbis and my University of California Students. Coordinated through SPARC at UCSC (a social and environmental research center which I founded and currently co-direct with Elliot Anderson) http://sparc.ucsc.edu Exhibition: Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)…Continue Reading Your Turn

Commissioned for Fred 08, Britain’s largest international public art festival, during the height of the economic crash Methods of Escape explores the relationship between language, icon, and our personal desires to get away from it all. Travelling the Lake District in the North of England I roamed the countryside asking passersby “What is your Method…Continue Reading Methods of Escape: Public Art