The Seed is a site-specific installation set in an apple orchard; the suspended holo's are activated by wind and light. Light acts as the border between matter and frequency, before frequency becomes physical and embodies form. It is as a holographic medium: the sculptural holo's respond to their environment, carrying imprints and memories. Minor White felt the power of light and saw it as a conduit of spirit; in The Seed I am exploring the sentient nature of light as it moves through the landscape—a unifying thread between the collective un/conscious, the individual, and the environment. As if creating its own ecosystem, listening and responding.
Video by Little Pond Digital
The Seed, 2021 currently on view
A site specific installation in an apple orchard, created as a part of Curator Katherine Gass Stowe’s exhibition, Sequences: Ode to Minor White for The Brattleboro Museum.
Threshold, 2019
Installation 8’ x 8’ x 8’
Video projection, motors, two sculptural prisms, 2 speakers
Sound created by sound artist and poet Guinevere Syers
A liminal passage is a space between one point in time and the next. Defined as “The quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage. . . During a rites liminal stage the participants stand at a threshold between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community and a new way (which arises out of the completion of the rite).”
Life Line in Living Coral was shown as apart of a group show at SUNY New Paltz. It is an installation created in response to the Pantone of the year by the same name. Coral reef’s are amongst the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. They require, as all healthy ecosystems do, an awareness and respect of the fine balance that makes that system thrive. Water drips into the vessel at the center of the piece at the rate of an average human heart beat, emulating a pulse of light that resonates throughout the space.
I am continually returning to the incredibly refined and delicate fabric that makes our world thrive. It is the foundation of my work. There is a stunning balance and beauty that if we’re unable to acknowledge and honor will die and we along with it.
Kinetic Video installation size variable 360 degrees
Kinetic video installation 360 degrees
Interactive Installation: I’d Like to Ask You A Question
created in collaboration with Nora Breen thanks to a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
shown at Governors Island Art Fair in 2012
“Everything you see is an apparition of the unseen.
The forms are impermanent, yet the essence is changeless.
Every sight will return to the unseen.
Every utterance will end in the original silence.
Do not cling to the mirages; the source they come from is eternal,
expanding, spreading, bearing endless lives and endless joy…” – Rumi
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Video of an installation
Governor's Island Art Fair 2014
The central video within the installation is that of a Whirling Dervish. Whirling Dervish's spin to release the ego, their identification with the self as separate, and reunite with wholeness, the one consciousness that is the fabric and essence of all.
In the center of the room there is a concave rotating piece of clear material that holds the dancing dervish in a 3-dimensional form like a holographic version of himself spinning, suspended. This material throws the light body of the dervish around the room and the visage appears to leave and re-enter its body. There are 2 reflective sculptures simultaneously turning with the movement of the room contributing to the overall hypnotic feeling, while Tim Heckers'"Dropped Piano's" plays throughout the space.
The exploration of the piece was to create a space for people to enter where they could go beyond the mind into a subtle space where the light, sound, movement, and rhythm draw the individual into the centrifuge of frequency and sensation that they may experience synchronization, and merging into that sensation. Perhaps experiencing themselves as inseparable from all that surrounds them.
David Bohm's theory discusses the idea that everything is connected, of one fabric, and that every particle holds the information of every other. The hologram reveals this theory in physical matter when the image, in its entirety, is held within each part of the material even after it is broken into many parts.
This piece is a non-linear video based on the experience of sensing as communion or a call and response from the interior to the exterior world. The installation has two convex panels that seamlessly meet in the center creating the feeling of the two sides of each frame entering one another. The installation can be viewed from either side. On the other side the panels are convex, and the image comes forward toward the viewer implicating them into the experience, and then turns away, leaving site as the next image emerges.
This piece is a non-linear video based on the experience of sensing as communion or a call and response from the interior to the exterior world.
The installation has two convex panels that seamlessly meet in the center creating the feeling of the two sides of each frame entering one another. The installation can be viewed from either side. On the other side the panels are convex, and the image comes forward toward the viewer implicating them into the experience, and then turns away, leaving site as the next image emerges.
