SkyZilla
Sculpture 10'x10'x16' 2025, wood, fabric, light, sound (This photo is the sculpture during the daytime-not illuminated)Transforms to a an illuminated lantern at night.

Illuminated sculpture of a giant hairy mammalian legs in heels and glowing flowing skirt. Sky meets the earth. Myth meets Earth

SkyZilla Sculpture 2025 10'x10'x16'

wood, fabric, paper, light, interactive sound

Documentation of the sculpture at Ladew Topiary Garden, 

The sound of thunder is activated when the viewer walks between the legs.

Hothouse for the Flora of Our Own Making(or the fruit of our convenience)
Site-specific installation, Ladew Topiary Gardens, Jarrettsville Md 2019
43' x 10' x 15'.
clear polyethylene #4 repurposed plastic, wood, filament and light
The artwork is site specific to the green house at Ladew Topiary Garde. The Green house is growing an illuminated multicolored single-use plastic. The work is a spectacle of endless consumption and a reminder of how a material of our own design has become a staple of our environment and is rapidly transforming the natural world.

Hothouse for the Flora of Our Own Making(or the fruit of our convenience)
Site-specific installation, Maryland 2019
516″ x 120 x 180″
clear polyethylene #4 repurposed plastic, wood, filament and light

Teetering X Tottering(On The Brink) Sculpture, 2015 wood, water, repurposed water bottles, micro-controllers, sensors, speakers, light 

This project is a kinetic sculpture that invites the viewer to balance up or down creating an experiential awareness of water as a shared resource. The participants movement of the see-saws in this audio work triggers the recorded sounds of the fish common to the Chesapeake Bay, mixing it with the gurgling of the bottled water, thereby connecting them to the natural world. For this project I worked with the audio collected by a scientist form the Eastern Shore that recorded the vocalizations of common fish in the Chesapeake Bay and also a sound tech(Alan Grover) that engineered a micro-controller that sensed the movement of the participants as they balanced and triggered the audio. Pictured here is the sculpture in Staten Island, NYC.

MiMi 2011, site-specific video projection on the ice rink in Highlandtown

The ice rink in Patterson park is a giant lantern that illuminates the park almost nightly.  Anthropomorphizing the architecture of the Dominic “Mimi” DiPietro Ice rink with blinking video eyes for the annual Lantern Parade, celebrated the nature of the building and the light parade.

Here in the Herafter we Frolic, site-specific installation 2021

Dimensions:Variable , Installation includes 2 swans 8.6' long X 4.5' wide X 5.5' in ht,  bamboo, repurposed plastic, paint, light. This work celebrates the conservation and comeback from the brink of extinction of the Trumpeter Swan.   The trumpeter swan, the largest feathered mammal in North America and Canada was hunted to extinction by the early colonists and sent to England for premium writing quills and swanskins.  The return of the trumpeter swan is a long remarkable conservation success story.

Here in the Hereafter we Frolic, Installation  2021 (detail)

The Closet(uniform city)Sculpture 2025
14’x12’x12′
Metal, wood, clothing, fabric, light, sound, performance.
The Closet(uniform city) is a site-specific sculpture/installation comprised of hundreds of post-consumer garments collected from multiple 
communities. The installation invites the viewer to walk through a labyrinth of garments to experience the looks and sounds of different periods and
functionality of clothing from all walks of life. The work explores the interplay between cultural identity and clothing. It considers how our identities are sculpted 
through rituals that are connected to domesticity and fashion. The work addresses the environmental impact of the textile waste that has piled up over many decades 
during the rise of ready-made and fast fashion.
 The work was presented for a month at LeMondo in downtown Maryland. The Closet(uniform city)is site-specific to the Le Mondo space because the building housed a clothing outlet called Uniform City for many years prior to becoming an art space. This project was made possible in part by a Maryland State Art Council Creativity Grant.

This photo is the interior detail of the installation with a visitor walking through. There is a red glowing dress.

This is the neon sign (How Clean is Clean?) that I had made for the exhibition, it was made to mimic a store front shop and to add a eerie light to the interior installation. It is on the outside of the storefront and surrounded by dry-cleaning bags. This work has also been exhibited as a stand alone piece called How Clean is Clean?

The work is an installation by day and in the evening a participatory theatrical event. This project, located in a gallery storefront which was once a dry cleaner shop, takes the form again of a conceptual dry cleaner shop. Composed of thousands of low density polyethylene (the clear plastic used to package “clean” garments). The work reflects on the ubiquitous cleaners of our urban landscape and  emphasizes the ever growing problem of LDPE plastic #4 and the use of perchloroethylene, a known toxin, to clean wearables.The street view of the installation, which is storefront gallery(Cardinal Gallery in Bolton Hill on North Ave.)  I had a neon sign made to illuminate the installation at night and invite folks in the neighborhood to drop off their single use dry cleaner bags.

(dirty~clean)CLEANERS
installation/performance on-going - 2020 pictured here in Current Gallery storefront with multiple performances on sidewalk during exhibition. Collected used dry-cleaning bags, neon sign, neon light, clothing rack, laundry bin, filament

neon,neon light, clothing rack,recycled dry-cleaning bags, laundry bins, intermittent performance(myself and an invited performer)

This installation is in the form of a conceptual dry cleaner shop composed of re purposed polyethylene (the clear plastic used to package garments). The perfect package fresh from the dry cleaners contains a garment free from dirt, wrinkles and any other signs of human life. Both laundered object and smells are contained – captured – underneath a thin plastic sheen. The installation considers the after-life of human made materials related to domesticity and is activated with performative events.  During the performance Sisyphean cleaning clerks endlessly fold, process and roll the ghosts of our laundry.  

SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke) Installation/performance 2013 (on-going) modified 1969 hearse, karaoke machine, speakers, disco ball, light This artwork is a mobile karaoke room in a funeral car. The installation invites the viewer to repose in the back of a hearse and sing a Karaoke song, eulogize or simply listen. SWAN SONG explores issues relating to loss, death and the finite nature of the body....and the world. This project is ongoing and moves to different locations. 

 Frequencies for Darwin, participatory installation,1000 red wigglers, microphones, amplifier, red light, black velvet drape. In this installation the participant is invited to talk to worms via a sculptural instrument. I have modified a worm filled glass jar with a audio speaker that vibrates when the participant speaks through the microphone. 

 Frequencies for Darwin takes the form of a small theater that contains a voice activated, vibrational instrument. This project contains a participatory sculptural object that harks back to the parlor games of the 19th century. The work invites the viewer to sit and speak into the microphone to communicate with the common earthworm. The glass jar contains approx. 1000 red wigglers (a variety of earthworm), who, with time will move in response to light and the vibration of the glass. The work is inspired in part by the experiments of Charles Darwin with worms and vibration as discussed in his seminal book "The Formation Of Vegetable Mould, Through The Actions of Worms".
We have much in common with the earthworm. Worms respond to vibration, such as the patter of rain or the pecking of the birds on the earth. Humans also communicate with vibration, via the vibrating folds of the larynx, and the vibration of sound transmitted through the air.

Sculpture/Installation Artscape Baltimore, Maryland D 30'x30'x8' wood,paper,fabric, audio(sounds of beed), beehive. walk through maze with interior beehive