Project Type: Kinetic

  • Tight Spots

    Tight Spots

    Tight Spots, 2021towels, motors, rods, tubing(site specific) Humor and empathy meet in Tight Spots as each small towel sculpture toils away, “head down” working endlessly in an absurd yet relatable performance. As each piece in the installation works individually, yet in a similar manner, relationships are formed through space. The overtone is humorous, the undertone…

  • Sink In

    Sink In

    The spaces of the dresser are filled with water. It spills over where the sleeve of a shirt might dangle as the tiered drawers become a waterfall creating an uncanny juxtaposition. 

  • Knock Knock

    Knock Knock
  • Making Room

    Making Room

    Making Room was the inaugural exhibition for PAR-Projects in Cincinnati, OH. The location informs the content and form of pieces. Thirteen large mechanized mobiles mimic the motion of bugs swarming. The motion of each small piece is connected to those around them creating an agitating, but a beautiful visual manifestation of interdependence. While activating the…

  • Made Up

    Made Up

    Made Up is a kinetic sculptural installation in which a series of tabletops spin simultaneously referencing furniture, dance and formal gatherings while making invisible forces and air patterns visible.

  • Threshold II

    Threshold II

    Threshold II, 2015rug, motor, apparatus

  • Thin Air 1

    Thin Air 1

    The ubiquitous, relaxing and sensual action of a curtain blowing is uncannily controlled by a motor and strings. The curtain becomes a puppet, the implied breeze animatronic.

  • Kept

    Kept

    A pile of blankets slowly move up and down as if breathing. A small piece of wax moves on the wall a bit like the motion of a bug.

  • Sheesh

    Sheesh

    Sheesh, 2013aerosol can, cardboard box, water, container, wood, tubing, motors

  • Swarm

    Swarm

    A large, mechanized mobile created site specifically for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI that mimics the motion of a swarm of flies or bugs. A single motor slowly turns a wobbly wire apparatus which supports multiple pieces of thread occasionally holding a bit of lead and black wax. As…