New Commission: Heliotropis

Here is a sketch of my new project Heliotropis. It is a solar powered kinetic piece, a flower that blooms with the day and responds to its environment. The colors are still uncertain, i've been considering red for the petals, but I like this violet a lot... the flower and stamen will be glass, the stem stainless. This work is being commissioned by Beth Deutch and Larry Rubin in Rumson, NJ.

Rose Colored Lenses

Here is the installation at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre: more images to come....

Progress.....

Here's the latest, time to start making molds for slumping the glass!

Rose Colored Lenses

Here is a sketch of my current project, Rose Colored Lenses. The sculpture is a commission for the first annual Florida's First Coast Arts Festival, hosted by the St. Augustine Amphitheater and produced by Tony Mata and Kevin Marshall of the University of Florida's Colege of Fine Arts. The festival will be a week full of music, theatre, dance, and an outdoor sculpture exhibition of works by UF School of Art and Art History students and alumni.

The material here is raw, rusty steel and seven deep-red, hot-formed glass domes or lenses.

For Tyler...

Here is our first attempt at the knitted treehouse. A single piece of 1/2 inch nylon rope, 500 feet long, was used to knit the structure. Two platforms were knitted into the structure to give it shape and to create a sitting area. The base is anchored using eight 16 inch ground anchors, the screw type; the top is tightened with a large ratchet-strap.

Tree Houses!

This summer I completed another custom tree house commission, for Carmel Buckley, Mark Harris, and their son Luke in Cincinnati. The tree was a large beech, about four feet in diameter at the base.



There was a seventeen-year Cicada bloom, which had thousands of these mechanical, vibrating beauties flying all about, and singing a rich, intense hum for days!