During Fort Point’s annual open studios event I was asked to install a large sculptural installation in the theater space at Midway Studios. After moving the wooden tubes over from Studio Soto’s comparitively cramped quarters I thought I would expand the tubes as much as I could to fill the cavernous theater space. The first two images show the tube at it’s largest, roughly seventy feet in length and fourteen feet in height. Unfortunately during the middle of the night the piece collapsed. I spent the next few days repairing the tubes into two seperate lengths which appear in the next images. Also installed were Well, Lifelines, inside out and a looped tube of polyethylene.

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Who’s That was installed at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360 in 2009. Due to certain restrictions I had to cluster the mirrors together in large blocks. I set the mirrors low on the wall to reflect the body more directly. The college setting and the pressures placed on peer groups concerning body appearance and fashion were the main influences. The proximity sensors were placed in line with each column of mirrrors so that when someone walked by it would shake the column directly in front of them. The other part of this installation was composed of smaller mirrors mounted to bed springs in a long row high up on the wall. This installation reflected the face predominately and due to the different angles of each mirror deflected the reflection as the viewer walked past.

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Tidal Flowers was a commissioned public art piece for Boston’s Fort Point Channel. It consisted of five large flowers made from post-consumer detergent bottles. As the tide filled the channel the flowers closed and sank beneathe the surface. As the tide ebbed the flowers slowly reopened. The largest flower was approximately twenty feet in diameter – Red Tide, the smallest – B.P. flower, was six feet across. At the conclusion of a a four month stretch which included two tropical storms, a noreaster and countless windy days the flowers were removed from the channel and sent back to be recycled. More information can be seen in the Blog section.

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Lifelines was the inaugural Atrium Sculpture Commission winner for MassArt’s Kennedy Campus Center. Each tube is around twelve feet in height with strands cascading to the floor below for another twelve feet. I worked on campus for approximateley nine months carving each tube. The timelapse video below shows the work split between frames of me actually carving the tube and frames of me not.

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Touch Me

Touch Me was the first in a series of kinetic interactive installations that took place in empty storefront windows across from the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. It consisted of forty carved wooden motorized fingers that were mounted to the inside of the window with suction cups. A motion sensor was placed outside over the sidewalk, as pedestrians walked by the fingers would tap on the window. The wires were stitched into the walls and architecture of the building. The concept was to connect the building directly to the people on the street.

Touch You

Touch You was the second in the series and was installed for four months. I rewired the fingers, added mirrors and changed the name to include the viewrs more directly.

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