Burning Forest of Aspen
Climate change has created forest fires throughout the southwest of the United States. The artwork preserves of the relics of the forest fires while also containing an ark of seeds within the sculptures themselves.
Circles of Life
Centennial sculpture for the Art Institute represents all endangered trees of the area cast in bronze, surrounded by an endangered prairie and forest of species that eventually will engulf the bronze sculpture over time, becoming part of the forest.
Circles of Time
Circles of Time is a narrative history of the Tuscan landscape. Each ring represents a new milestone in land usage. The inner core represents a primeval forest before human intervention, an herbal ring represents the Etruscan use of the land, and bronze sculptures of fallen endangered trees represent the Roman gods. A wall of laurel represents Greek influence. Within the wall are small entryways that can be used to access the work. A concave geological ring contains stones collected from various elevations, positioned precisely in the ring as they existed in the mountain range so that the ring becomes a geological mimicry of Tuscany. The outer ring is composed of contemporary agricultural use of the land: olives and wheat.
1001 Oaks: Endangered Trees of Denmark
The oaks of Denmark are endangered species. Seedlings of ancient oaks are planted in the shape of a labyrinth protected by a stone ship. The ship is a recreation used in Denmark during the Viking period and surrounds endangered Oak trees which would have been used to make the original Viking ships. After many years of shipbuilding, the oak forests were significantly reduced. The oak trees planted inside of the stone ship are in the vein structure of the oak leaf.
Paris--la Défense: L'art contemporain et l'axe historique Proposal
The foundation is the original stone with the indigenous plants before the Louvre was built. Seven sites were selected, such as the Notre Dame Cathedral, each representing the original vegetation that existed before the creation of Paris.
The LaQuinta Nature Trail commissioned by the Department of Waterworks CF is a three and a half mile walk visualizing the history of the land from an oasis to the zeroscaping of the future.