Mercury Landing

A compact arrangement of fabricated towers and illuminated architectural forms is activated by programmed LEDs. The title, Les Jeux Sont Faits—the bets are placed, the outcome decided—announces a conclusion that the construction's continuing activity seems reluctant to accept. Light introduces successive appearances within an otherwise fixed assemblage, putting the certainty of an announced outcome in tension with the work's unfolding experience. A miniature spectacle persists after the game has ostensibly ended.

LichtStadt

8.5" x 8.5" x 24" High

Wood, Artificial grass, Moss, Paint, PLA 3d printed parts, Motorized spinner, NeoPixel, and other LED lights.

Rue Voltaire; Rue Rousseau

8" x 8" x 21.5" High

Wood, Lace, PLA and SLA 3d printed parts, NeoPixel and other LEDs, HO-scale streetlights and figures, time-controlled humidifier.

Pilaster Rock

Base: 10" x 10"

Height: 74"

Wood, Plaster, Cloth, PLA 3d printed parts, LEDs, Motors and fans, Pendulum.

Corner Stone City Shrine

8" x 8" x 21.5" High

Wood, Mirror, PLA and SLA Resin 3d prints, LEDs, Looping Audio track.

Here then is an ode to the gap between buildings, to the street that is their negative space; To nomadic meandering through sedentary estates; To the proliferating roadways of wanderlust.

A cornerstone never laid down to be relegated to history, but a permanent work in progress, tirelessly regenerating itself, starting over, again and again, like the vulture-ravaged liver of Prometheus.

Four corners frame an intersection, in the middle of which faces fourfold out, a dancing Parvati, consort of Shiva, ancient Hindu female deity, effigy of a grounding earthy force, channeling the incommensurate city into her sinuous rhythm.

Trans Limbo Express

8" Wide x 6" Deep x 22" High

Wood, PLA and SLA Resin 3d prints, Paint, programmed LEDs.

Les Jeux Sont Faits

Topographic fragments

17" Wide x 12" Deep x 18" High

Wood, Foam, Paint, US map cookie cutter, Tesla Coil with speaker, Neon bulbs, PLA 3d printed parts, HO scale figures, Name badge with running text, Pendulum, Looping audio track.

8.5" x 8.5" x 22.5" High

Wood, Lace, PLA 3d printed parts, Motor, NeoPixel LEDs, Paint, Gold Leaf, Admiral Fitzroy Storm Glass.

LichtStadt (City of Light) brings together miniature architectural formations, artificial vegetation, and mechanical movement in an illuminated vertical assemblage. Moss and artificial grass introduce an organic presence among the fabricated structures, while a motorized spinner and shifting lights lend the construction a changing appearance. The city emerges as a hybrid environment in which technological invention and simulated nature coexist, blurring distinctions between urban infrastructure, cultivated landscape, and ornamental spectacle.

A miniature construction brings together mechanical movement, programmed light, ornamental details, and an Admiral FitzRoy storm glass. Originally devised to anticipate changes in weather, the glass becomes part of an imaginary exploratory apparatus. The title invokes both an extraterrestrial destination and the terrestrial science of observation. Lace, gold leaf, and fabricated components give the work the character of a ceremonial instrument, poised somewhere between scientific invention and speculative architecture.

Rising more than six feet, Pilaster Rock extends Polytopia's miniature architectural vocabulary into a conspicuously vertical construction. Wood, plaster, fabric, printed components, motors, fans, and a pendulum participate in an assemblage whose movements complicate its monumental appearance. The pilaster, conventionally a stable architectural support, becomes a site of mechanical activity and precarious equilibrium. The construction invokes the permanence of a monument while submitting its elaborate formation to the restless operation of its constituent parts.

Two names associated with Enlightenment thought become the addresses of an imaginary urban environment. Miniature streetlights and figures inhabit a fabricated architectural setting in which programmed illumination and intermittent vapor alter the appearance of the streets. The timed humidifier lends an atmospheric instability to an otherwise carefully constructed miniature. Between philosophical abstraction and everyday pedestrian life, the work returns the celebrated names to the contingencies of the street.

Four corners frame an intersection, where a dancing Parvati turns toward the surrounding city. Mirrors, illumination, and a looping soundtrack animate this miniature shrine, dedicated as much to the spaces between buildings as to the buildings themselves. Streets, crossings, and wandering trajectories displace the architectural monument from its customary position of permanence. The cornerstone is never definitively laid; the city remains a perpetual work in progress, repeatedly assembling and renewing its own foundations.

A cookie-cutter outline of the United States rises on two tall neon bulbs, lit wirelessly by a Tesla coil positioned behind them. The coil emits a blue electrical flame, transforming the familiar geographic silhouette into a luminous spectacle. Below, a pendulum hangs over a gathering of miniature figures beneath a heating coil, while an automobile and a prehistoric carcass introduce the intertwined histories of fossil fuel and motorized transportation.

A looping soundtrack cycles through the American, French, and British national anthems, overlaid with revving engines, accelerating vehicles, and screeching tires. The ceremonial grandeur of national identity collides with the clamorous exhilaration of automobile culture. Oil, territorial power, and the mythology of speed converge in a miniature theater of progress, where the promise of limitless mobility is held in the precarious suspension of an electrified apparatus.