public art

Empyrean Passage emp.pass.splash.crop 2 kids playing in Emerald Laser Lawn. Emerald Laser Lawn
Root Exquisite detail of root textures cast in bronze. Fabricaiton by Blue Mountain Fine Art, Baker City OR. Engineering by Mike Valley of MKA, City of Bellevue, 4Culture coded.louvers1w Coded Louvers
Emerald Aura emerald.aura Created in collaboration with Norie Sato. Safety Spires
Digital Divide DIGITAL DIVIDE. The wall separating the Big Blue Bus operations and maintenance facility and Colorado Ave is a kinetic artwork inspired by the sparkling blue ocean and the pulsing and ever-changing skin patterns of the indigenous squid Loligo opalescens. Created from glass and a special liquid crystal film, the wall ripples with patterning revealing and obscuring the maintenance facility by switching the glass from opaque to transparent cobalt blue in milliseconds. By day, it is possible to "read" the dynamic swooping forms, and at night the lasers transform the field into a mesmerizing play of light. There are 11 different programs that sequence over a 35 minute loop. Photo: Corey Scherrer Oscillating Field
Luminous Conjunction LUMINOUS CONJUNCTIONS A 2-part interactive project utilizing "security lighting funds". A ring of trees and walkway surrounds the central lawn. As a person walks by an individual tree it changes color from white to green, then slowly fades back to white. Riding a bike around the park can quickly sequentially trigger the trees. As we move through the park, we affect the space around us and leave a temporary mark. Photo: Bill Sanders sunrise.teal.crop Rockwood Sunrise
Luminous Reeds 22'w x 18'l x 6'h; florescent acrylic rods; ©2010 merc.sky.5lg Mercurial Sky
Portals portholes.train lace.only (Inner/Outer) Space Forms
Waterbottle Chandeliers Special Thanks to: METRO, MB FInnerty, Shannon Owen/ Art In Metal, Dave Glover/ Natural Lite Neon RAIN DRUM COURTYARD Cedar River Watershed Visitors Center, North Bend WA The space between 3 buildings houses a wild overgrown forest floor with a slow moving stream and a canopy of tall, thin and lacy vine maples. Interspersed between the trees are 17 "rain drums" that play the raindrops as they fall from the sky and drip from the branches. When the sky is dry, there is a set of computer controlled water drippers that create a set of changing rhythms. Rain Drum Courtyard
Carpet of Languages HID ellipsoidal projectors, weather enclosures, Gobos, sensors. 2011 WRC.1 Wave Rave Cave
Antennae Reeds 10’x 20’x 35’h; aluminum, LEDs, Urethane Resin, specialty paint; ©2003 Fiber Optic Reeds emerge from the water. Slowly the colors shift from green to dark blue. Every so often a single reed turns orange-red...then returns to green or blue...and the pattern continues in other single reeds. The colors and forms link the plaza artwork to the pond site. Fiber Optic Reeds
Snaking Root Ceiling/Floor NeonTreeFloor2 20’d; black concrete, fiber optic cable; ©2005Part of a 6 acre campus Landscape design (lead design team member) with multiple Art Elements and Art Master-planning. This central plaza contains black concrete and +2000 fiber optic points to create a dynamic kinetic display of echoes and raindrop patterns. Echo/Raindrops
Blue Duwamish The curving light supports complement the curved safety railing, making reference to wave patterns and salmon ribs Resin_Rods2 Resin Rods
Longboat Reed Rookery LRRweb1 suaro.detail6w Saguaro Soul
Infrastructure Enhancements The BANGLES are being applied to aprox 15 special poles adjacent to the stations in the MLK Valley. Each station has its own signature color. This project was done in collaboration with Norie Sato SKAGIT STREAMING is a complex multi-site project providing a window into the Skagit River system (Seattle’s hydroelectric facility ) via fiber optic cable- from 150 miles away. “Live” Streamed video images (from 3 cameras): Riverside views, underwater footage and microscopic images are then sent into various city buildings, the WWW and projected nightly 40' across on the side of a large parking garage. The www aspect of the project provides streaming video, feedback and educational information. This project aspires to connect the downtown urban core with the source of its electricity and quiet cycles of nature. At the same time, it acts as a sort of "canary in a coal mine" by monitoring strategic fish populations for the public. Skagit Streaming