Collaboration with Amir Tabatabaei and Niloufar Keyhani. Permanant sculpture in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA. Steel and acrylic, 2024. Guardian of Balance explores the theme of work-life balance in a post-pandemic world. The sculpture features two interconnected architectural forms, inspired by the diverse architecture of Coolidge Corner. These forms house stylized figures that symbolize individuals navigating the complexities of work and personal life. You are invited to interact with the sliding elements, physically altering the balance between the figures and reflecting the dynamic nature of guarding our own work-life equilibrium. Part of the Brookline Art Makes Community public art initiative.
Cast iron, oak, and acrylic. Installed in 2024, in Monument Square, Concord, MA, and on view through 2025. Freedom’s Silhouette honors the enduring fight for freedom, drawing inspiration from the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the lives of 19th-century Concord residents Henry David Thoreau and Ellen Garrison. The installation features two 6-foot-long benches with acrylic silhouettes of Thoreau and Garrison. The transparent acrylic allows viewers to see their own reflection alongside these historical figures, fostering a deep connection to Concord’s heritage and broader themes of justice and freedom. Made possible through the Town of Concord, in collaboration with the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council part of NEFA’s state-wide “Making It Public” program. Learn more here.
Flock Together is an installation of laser cut ¼” translucent neon acrylic that are silhouettes of black-capped chickadees, the Massachusetts state bird. When grouped, they make a vibrant flock of chickadees which symbolizes the diverse people who call the acre home. In two “Community Creation Sessions” at the Powell Memorial Library and CTI Farmers Market, over 70 people wrote or drew a message of love for the Acre. The messages were digitized and etched onto the blue acrylic bird silhouettes as a testament to the people and locations that make the Acre unique.
The Block was a temporary outdoor sculpture installation designed for Chestnut Hill Square in Chestnut Hill, MA. Chestnut Hill Square hosts an annual call for art through the New Art Center, The Block was selected for the 2023 season. It’s easy to think of places in relationship to our own bodies, in travel distances and amenities, and how they make us feel, which is not often in alignment with boundaries drawn on a map. This installation uses the lines of the assessor’s map to create reflective barriers that are intentionally enigmatic, based on the property lines of Chestnut Hill Square and surrounding land parcels. Made of windshield glass, plexiglass, and powder coated steel. Alternately displayed as “Desire Line: A Non-Linear Path” in 2024 and “Fractured Dreams” in 2025.
“Blinkah” was inspired by the many deer who ran in front of my friend’s car and died. Extrapolate to the many deaths of creatures by automobile and the way folks across New England say “blinker” to mean car indicator, and the installation becomes a colloquial assessment of how we interact with nature. Blinkah II, the second iteration, features ten different New England species, created in response to our casual destruction of life around us. The broken windshield glass is both reflective and transparent; ghostlike animal silhouettes framed in geometric forms, evoking an environmentalist narrative to help us see ourselves in the world around us.
Dedicated to Jack & Jeanne Drake and their son, Albert. at the Palmyra Community Library. See the process catalog here.
Thesis exhibition 2010. Read the complete description here.