Installations
Ridge and Valley
In dry weather, the stone map gives visitors a sense of how the waterways connect, and during rainfall it creates a watershed in miniature.[more »]
Kept Out
Deer exclosures protect the forest plants from the deer’s grazing. Over time, green growth will obliterate the blue haze of fencing. [more »]
Tampa Wind
The movement of the wind is very much like the fluid movement of the water: there are eddies, vortices and laminar flows in both systems. [more »]
Melting Point
The oils used in this work mark the ordinary seasonal fluctuation of temperature, but also hint at the sensation of an impending heat looming on the horizon. [more »]
Springside
The Springside Rain Wall & Garden functions by treating storm water in place, and preventing it from being expelled directly into the local waterways, thus reducing the effect of erosion of the stream's banks. [more »]
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
Water collected from each tributary is poured into a map of the watershed made from thousand of cups. [more »]
Occurs Each Afternoon
Hundreds of clear nylon bristles are attached to both sides of the west facing window, and as the sun sets, these 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
Thirteen black and white stones reflect the sky and glow in the last light of the evening. [more »]
Cornerstones
Images of microorganisms found in Lake Union and along it's 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
Huge images of microorganisms from the local waterways inhabit the lower walls of the train station while the local streams and rivers are mapped in the stairways. [more »]
Lay Lines
The stone coast of Maine is eroded by rainwater moving from land to sea creating long grooves where the grass gets a footing and continues to crack the stone apart. [more »]
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
Fruit and bread molds presented in a double portait: one is the enlarged image of these molds sandblasted onto glass; the other is a living culture, growing in the carved-out areas of the glass. [more »]
Confluences: Flows of the Schuylkill
Confluences shows the often forgotten phenomena of a six foot tide on the river. Two times a day, river water fills up the stone terraces and then recedes. [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
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 the day’s date. Over time, a bar graph of precipitation is created. [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 turquoise spinners. [more »]
A Month of Tides
Only three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean, the nearby tide is easily forgotten by the people who work inside the concrete and glass building. [more »]
Leaf Tally
The total leaf production of three young trees (oak, maple beech) were recorded and etched into glass tiles. [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 trajectory 24 hours a day. [more »]