Commissioned by Beverly Willis for her 80th birthday celebration at the Century Club in New York, NY. The works are a playful representation of common architectural building materials. Willis founded the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation for the study and archiving of Women in Modern Architecture. www.bwaf.org
Wild Blue Yonder
A Percent for Art project for the Brainard Airport Aviation Repair School in Hartford, CT. A façade piece inspired by the Wright Brothers Flyer Two plane. The materials of dichroic glass and stainless steel will reflect off of the surface of the building offering a kaleidoscope of color on the façade. The work includes a feature that will be activated by solar power and another that will be activated by the wind.
Estimated completion - late 2008
A suite of works that are inspired by the art of science and math for Needham High School in Needham, MA – Dance of Time
DNA Rocket
a suspended work of stainless steel and dicroic glass inspired by the form of DNA and also a rocket spiraling around a star. The circular form will occasionally rotate powered by a solar panel.
Music of the Elements - Dance of the Day
a sundial park offering the “Place as Time” with benches for each hour marker. Night time lighting will be provided by a wind turbine designed into the piece. The light patterns will change with the seasons and honor various events on the Campus.
Works also include benches, a dichroic glass and stainless steel arch that will frame a large west facing window which will cast shadows of color throughout the space. Also a suspended work, Infinity of the Mind, that represents an illustration of the projection of numbers into infinity as imagined by the 17th century science thinker Athanasius Kircher.
