Installations
Watermap
Watermap details a section of the Delaware River watershed surrounding the Friends’ Central School. Tributaries of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers are sandblasted into bluestone pavers. [more »]
Tide Flowers
Tide Flowers will register the tidal movement with a simple visual presence of brilliantly-colored flowers blooming at high tide and closing at low tide. [more »]
Lotic Meander
The meandering form is based on several local streams, the scroll-like patterns clarify the hydrological patterns of water as it swirls in vortices around the bends in the stream bed. [more »]
Blue Lake
An installation about the memory of a particular lake, Blue Lake creates a dry space which evokes the sense of water. [more »]
River Eyelash
42 strands of spherical floats radiate out from the bulkhead of the Point State Park, like an eyelash for the city. [more »]
Watercourse
Historic creeks dating from the 1700's, now in pipes underground or filled in, are represented with overturned cups. As the exhibition progresses, the water evaporates and is replenished. [more »]
Occurs Each Afternoon
Hundreds of nylon bristles are attached to both sides of the west facing window As the sun sets, the filaments capture the color of the sunset. [more »]
Streamlines
The hydrological patterns of the nearby stream were enlarged and painted onto the meandering path with road striping paint. [more »]
Cloudstones
A series of 13 black and white granite and marble domes are sited along the path in Mineral Springs Park, lead the viewer out into the meadow areas.
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Cornerstones
Images of microorganism found in Lake Union and along it shores are sandblasted into local sandstone, with glass tiles bearing the names of the cross streets. [more »]
Wissahickon Food Web
A meandering path of native red-stemmed dogwoods creates a stream-like approach to the terrace which shows the gastronomic life of the Wissahickon stream. [more »]
Urban Oldfield: Diagram Of A Vacant Lot
This installation creates a field based on several vacant lots in the neighborhood and details what would be growing on this site if the museum was not here. [more »]
Waterlines
The local waterways were mapped on the stairways up to the trains in painted metal cutouts offset from the wall. [more »]
Lay Lines
Lay lines is about the areas eroded by water movement across the rocks, the long narrow voids where the grass can get a footing and the rainwater collects.
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Engineered To Drain
The piles of garbage at the landfill are covered with an impermeable cap to prevent rainwater from coming in contact with the garbage. This project maps the flow of rainwater down and across the capped landfill. [more »]
Mold Garden
Enlarged images of common molds ( bread mold and fruit mold) were sandblasted onto glass, Each of the carved out areas in the glass became like tiny petri dishes which were filled with growth medium, and inoculated with mold spores. [more »]
Confluences: Flows of the Schuylkill
Confluences allows the river’s tide to flow into the terraced basin, showing an often forgotten phenomena of a 6-foot tide two times a day. The river water slowly fills up the stone terraces and then recedes as the tide lowers. [more »]
Sea Column
A transparent and translucent layered book about the flora and fauna of the North Sea and the Ythan estuary. [more »]
Testing the Waters
Testing the Waters, a water treatment park in Vintondale Pennsylvania designed to provide a new answer for the usually engineered solution for passive treatment of acid mine drainage. [more »]
Calendar of Rain
Each day of the show is represented by a bottle sandblasted with that days date. The current day’s bottle is placed under a flask. [more »]
Hidden River
Schuylkill means "hidden river" in Dutch. The hidden river is also the lengths of plumbing which runs though our houses carrying treated water to the taps and toilets. [more »]
Traveling Watershed
Two cases of bottles, one containing a sample of water from all the burns, firths and lochs of Edinburgh’s watershed and the other containing waters from streams, rivers and reservoirs around the artist’s studio in Central Pennsylvania. [more »]
Cross-Section of a Forest in the Rain
300 glass lenses sandblasted with different leaves from the trees of the local forest are set against a deep blue stone wall. [more »]
Yadkin River Watershed
5000 plastic deli containers of different sizes were filled with water collected from the Yadkin River and all of its tributaries. The watershed was mapped on the floor of the gallery, with the names of towns applied to the floor in vinyl letters. [more »]
Seeing the Path of the Wind
A weather vane and anemometer, placed on the roof of the gallery sends wind speed and direction data into a digital weather station inside. [more »]
Wind Rain and Pollen
This piece explores the natural forces which have created the site as we know it. The wind drives the rain, the amount of rain determines the vegetation and the pollen is transported on the wind. [more »]
Arroyo
Rainwater is collected from the roof of the building and piped into the sculpture. As the run-off pours across the sculpture, it moves the arced turquoise spinners. [more »]
A Month of Tides
This school is only three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean but the nearby ocean’s twice-a-day tide is easily forgotten to the people who work inside the concrete and glass building. [more »]
Leaf Tally
The leaves of three different young trees (oak, maple, beech) were recorded and sand-blasted onto glass. [more »]
Water Sets
Decanter and four drinking glasses sandblasted with images of microorganisms found in each water source. [more »]
Where Is the Moon
A laser beam points to the exact position of the moon at each moment, following its lunar rajectory 24 hours a day. [more »]