Climate Test is a site-specific public art installation created for Art Kiosk in Redwood City, CA to create a dialogue about climate change in the city. The concept for this piece was inspired by Redwood City’s ambigu­ous motto of “Climate Best by Government Test,” its history as a port for lumber, and the fact that the city is part of Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is typically associat­ed with technology and innovation, but for me it represents the continuous consumption and mining of raw materials from the earth to drive it.
 
Using a “man-made color pallet” of bright and toxic colors, I created a surrealist forest of hand painted trees physically going through various detoxification, and toxic yet intoxicated transformations--trunks and branches melting away into oblivion over an ab­stracted typographic map of Redwood City and its geographic surroundings. Color changing lights are activated in the evening to
signify the passage of time.
 
Viewers are allowed to walk through the installation when the kiosk is open and can view it from all four sides of the building.