Souvenir reminders of an incredible day! I recently returned to Houston the end of July and had the unique opportunity to meet with Dr. Kamlesh Lulla and learn about his various roles throughout his 30+ year career. As NASA’s Chief Scientist for Earth Observation, Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, he developed and directed the technologies that enable NASA’s satellites and shuttles to capture Earth’s imagery and data from space! It was a true honor to share my recent art project in Houston with him and discuss our overlapping interests between science, art and conservation. The word “inspiring” is a bit of an understatement when I think of the extraordinary commitments he’s made to science, research, and space exploration. Suffice it to say, I’m intensely motivated and already back in the studio studying and researching to my heart’s content… and my head? …Yes, that’s still up in the clouds! 

Completed in June 2019, this 22ft. metal sepia panel of aerial satellite imagery is now included in a client’s corporate collection in Houston, Texas. Additional images and project specifics here.

Completed in April 2019, this concrete and copper public art sculpture, Traversing Sonoran Connections, is located at the NE corner of Scottsdale Rd and Oak in the City of Scottsdale, Arizona. Additional images and project details are here. 

Images of an enamel on copper process learned at a workshop with jewelry artist Michelle Swartzman at Mesa Art Center in June 2019. Aerial images include the largest diamond mine in Siberia, agriculture in the midwest, fracking and oil sites over Texas and the urban sprawl of the Southwest. These are testing experiments for a  larger installation project coming later in 2019.

Completed October 2018, this video and installation were made possible, in part, with an Artist Research Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.

Cache is a sculptural land art installation. An 300lb white concrete sculpture was hand-cast to form an 8ft x 5ft fossilized motherboard circuit. It was transported into the Mohave desert and settled into the landscape just outside Joshua Tree National Park. A collection of previously recorded NASA satellite images was enlisted — each one a survey, a moment of human impact on our planet. Once projected onto the sculpture, each image becomes a beautiful distortion of human-caused patterns; fragments of data that create brilliant color, light and form as they contour within the topography of the fossilized motherboard details.

This process was captured within a time lapse video spanning from dusk until dawn. Daylight hours reveal the bone-white fossil with little evidence of glowing patterns. As dusk proceeds, colorful forms of data and patterns emerge. They slowly develop in to a peak of visual brilliance in the dark of night only to recede again in the morning twilight as the new day begins.

The time-lapsed photography and video produced by LA-based artist Sean Deckert.  And special thanks to many others who lent insights, sweat and skillsets to help bring this art installation into reality. Documented on location at the amazing Bungalow in the Boulders in Joshua Tree where the sculpture will remain.

This exhibit will travel to the Phoenix area in May 2019 and be exhibited at Fine Art Complex 1101 in Tempe, Arizona.