ABOUT

I believe art needs to be beautiful so it can touch people in an unguarded place where they are open to new thoughts and feelings. But many things are beautiful. Art has the additional duty of carrying layers about what it means to think and act in the world. I always imagine my art as another actor in the world – modeling a new way of being in the world – or as a small space that surrounds people and creates new temporary worlds for them to inhabit. As actors in the world, my sculptures use light and motion to project themselves out into space or invite a gaze within them. Other sculptures surround people with alternate worlds that open up new ways of thinking and feeling. In pursuing these beautiful machines with moral import, I have created some of the world’s largest and most complex sculptures.

Every art piece has a ‘frame’ whether that is an art museum, a private residence, an urban plaza, a recreation center, the solar system, or the edges and forgotten spaces of cities. I am interested in all these spaces and keep the ‘frame’ firmly in mind while designing an art piece. However, I am most interested in spaces that are not yet fully ‘owned’ because that is where humanity is actively asking what it means to be human and where the next century of change will come from. These un-owned spaces include the edges of cities in a potentially rewilding world, the new frontier of space, and the forgotten and overlooked spaces inside cities. Even within the fully ‘framed’ space of an art museum or urban plaza, my impulse is to create an experience that breaks out of that frame and points to new possibilities.