Site Responsive Installation

 

I have been building installations since 2017. Most are impermanent. Most recently I have been building modular portals. These portals are the manifestation of my creative process, and reflect my philosophy, research and aesthetic. These mobile kinetic modular art objects are made from fallen branches bound together with ropes. Their structure reflects both an abstract and literal consideration of non-Euclidian, organic development, growth, and balance. The portals are made using minimal tools, no electricity, and manifest creative architectural forms inspired by natural structures and processes like dendritic branching, neural networks, and mycelium. The portals are site responsive and meant to integrate with rather than dominate the landscape.

Cloudwalker Portal, PondSkimmer Portal: Refugia, Re-Charge Festival, Temple Ambler, Playa Del Fuego 2025 and pOrtalBurn, 2025

Refugia is an installation built from modular art objects created with fallen branches bound together with rope and yarn. The structure of the installation makes a welcoming and protective space people can enter and pass through, integrating more fully with their environment and themselves. An inquiry into dynamic balance and non-Euclidian building architecture, the installation process uses minimal tools, gravity and no electricity. Refugia is shelter intended to draw viewers into and around its interior and exterior spaces, creating possibilities for refuge and reorientation.

MoKiMo Portals, Temple University Ambler Campus EarthFest, Arbor Day Installation, April 2024 TU, May 2024 Playa del Fuego, July 2024, pOrtalBurn
Site-responsive installations made from modular, kinetic, mobile portals, built with minimal tools, no electricity, with a focus on creative architectural forms inspired by natural structures and processes like dendritic branching, neural networks, and mycelium.

Synergic Non-Euclidian Fire Portals, art grant recipient Playa Del Fuego, Tamaqua, PA, May 2023, Cosmic Burn, Ithaca, NY, June 2023, and Portalburn, Almond, NY, 2023
Collaborative “Group Portal Weaving,” installation built and burned at three separate events.

Malkuthian Activation Portals II, art grant recipient, Playa Del Fuego, Tamaqua PA, May 2022, art grant recipient, Cosmic Burn, Ithaca, NY, June 2022, art grant recipient, Portalburn, Almond, NY, July 2022
Malkuth is a Hebrew word that can be understood as “Kingdom,” and refers to the material world of the senses. The Malkuthian Activation Portals are made from bound sticks and ropes. Their design is drawn from each of the 5 universal elements of Air, Earth, Water, Fire and Ether, and they reflect and invoke these natural forces, both as art objects and/or focal points or meditation tools that focus energetic frequencies and activate different energy centers. 

  • Indrajala Moongate, art grant recipient, Cosmic Burn, Ithaca NY, June 2021, art grant recipient, Elevate, Almond, NY July 2021

    • Indra's net is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of emptiness and interpenetration in ancient Buddhist philosophy. The term also refers to creating illusions, deception and magic.

Shrine to Demeter’s Tears, art grant recipient, Portalburn, Almond, NY, August 2021
Demeter is the Greek goddess of agriculture, grain and bread. When Persephone, her daughter was abducted and raped by her uncle Hades, and brought into the underworld Demeter became so sad that everything on the earth stopped growing. This is an altar where you are invited to reflect upon loss, grief, and the cycle of the seasons. Arriving at the threshold of autumn, we reap the fruits of this year’s harvest, and clear away the chaff we don’t need to carry into the winter months. This shrine is a sacred space dedicated to letting go of outdated burdens and making space for new growth.