Installation

Seed of Life

2023 Installation at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ

2023 Installation at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
Acrylic on Duralar
8’ x 22’ x 3’

The Seed of Life is a geometric design created through the repetition of six overlapping circles. If the pattern is continued up to nineteen circles, the design grows to become the ancient symbol, The Flower of Life. This image has been used throughout history as a symbol of existence, creation and fertility. The inclusion of this sacred geometry in my work has become a way to connect with humanity throughout time, through the universal language of geometry.

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The Subtle Body Prepares for Emergence

2022 Installation at Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

2022 Installation at Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Acrylic on Duralar
8’ x 30’ x 3’
Photo Credit: Panic Studio LA

Inspired by the number seven, this piece explores the notion of pre-existence and whether some mystical aspect of ourselves exists before we are born. In this transcendental realm, I imagine the seven chakras, or energy centers of the body, aligning from the root to the crown of the subtle body, leading a seven-sided heptagon towards the threshold of emergence. The forms within the heptagon are created with the seven colors of the visible spectrum, while two overlapping seven-point star polygons (heptagrams) gently hover above them in white. This imperfect form, symbolic of each of us, is ready to travel through the portal of life into the physical realm.

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One…Two…Three…

2020 Installation at the Carnegie Art Museum, Studio Gallery, Oxnard, CA

2020 Installation at Carnegie Art Museum, Studio Gallery, Oxnard, CA
7’ x 35’ x 3’
Acrylic paint on Duralar

In 2017, I began studying the numbers one through ten as well as sacred geometry, with the aim of exploring the interconnectedness of the world we live in through numbers and shapes. My installation for the Carnegie Art Museum Studio Gallery is inspired by the number three. The importance of threes can be found throughout time and across cultures, spanning the principles of math and science and the beliefs of myth and religion. This stabilizing triad brings a sense of unification, understanding and completion. Elements within the wall design for this piece, build off of the beauty of the vesica pisces, (created when two circles with the same radius intersect along each other’s perimeter), by adding a third circle, thus referencing Borromean rings. Braiding together light, energy and mass, this installation reflects on the symbolic complexity of this seemingly simple number.

Infinite Love/Flesh and Blood

2019 Installation at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA

2019 Installation at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Acrylic on Duralar
28’ x 26’ x 3’
Photo credit: Panic Studio LA

Infinite Love/Flesh and Blood is inspired by the number eight and visually references the clematis flower, oxygen (the eighth element on the periodic table), the eight notes in an octave, and the symbol of the infinite. Raised in a family of four and now having my own family of four, the number eight holds great symbolic power for me as I reflect on the people I love and my life.

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Flowing Sea Change

2019 Permanent Installation at the Yarrow Family YMCA, Westlake Village, CA

2019 Permanent Installation at Yarrow Family YMCA, Westlake Village, CA
Acrylic paint, printed vinyl and polystyrene
29’ x 15’ x 4’
Photo credit: Stephen Callis

In creating “Flowing Sea Change” specifically for the Yarrow Family YMCA, I spent time thinking about how the YMCA serves as a place of transformation within communities. It helps individuals transform their lives into a more healthy and connected state, while also growing and strengthening the bonds of the people within its community by authentically caring for their quality of life and well-being.

When considering these characteristics, I began to think about water as the element of life, and the fluidity and ability of water to transform and adapt based on its surroundings. This led me to the blue and green palette of the artwork. The mystical, biomorphic forms that appear to exist inside the wall are a reference to spirit, or the essence that animates life. As this essence emerges into the physical plane, the installation moves in different directions, just as we move in different directions throughout our lives. At times, we may move upwards, where there is the space for us to expand; at other times, we may flow downwards, like water in a stream, gently following the curves of the landscape that holds us. This installation is meant to serve as a reminder that we have the ability to transform our lives from one state to another and that the YMCA is a wonderful place to help each of us grow.

Gazing Into the Great Unknown

2018 Installation at Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA

2018 Installation at Pierce College Art GalleryAcrylic on Duralar8’ x 51’ x 3’Photo Credit: Panic Studio LA

2018 Installation at Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA
Acrylic on Duralar
8’ x 51’ x 3’
Photo Credit: Panic Studio LA

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Seed of Life

2018 Installation at Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA

2018 Installation at Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA
Acrylic on Duralar
8' x 30' x 3'
Photo Credit: Brit Brat Studios

The Seed of Life is a geometric design created through the repetition of six overlapping circles. If the pattern is continued up to nineteen circles, the design grows to become the ancient symbol, The Flower of Life. This image has been used throughout history as a symbol of existence, creation and fertility. The inclusion of this sacred geometry in my work has become a way to connect with humanity throughout time, through the universal language of geometry.

Eternally Searching (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13...)

2017 Installation at Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Installation at Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Acrylic on Duralar
8' x 69' x 3'
Photo Credit: Panic Studio LA

"Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls." -- Plato

The beauty, magic and power of the natural world are breathtaking. The beauty is soothing, and yet, I find myself in a constant state of yearning; longing to understand the connections between things, to be able to grasp the complex and intricate web that is life. When we study mathematical sequences like the Fibonacci numbers, we can see how number patterns and geometry begin to reveal the framework of the world around us. Visually, these numbers manifest in form of the Golden Spiral, which can be observed throughout nature and serves as the centerpiece of this installation project. These mathematical clues give us a glimpse into the depths of the unknown.

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Homage to the Mystery and Wisdom of the Feminine

2017 Installation at ArtShare LA, CA

2017 Installation at ArtShare LA, CA
Acrylic on Duralar
8' x 13' x 2'
Photo Credit: Panic Studio LA

Consider representing existence as a single point. If that point expands equally in all directions a circle is created. Move to any point on that circle’s circumference and create another circle of equal diameter. The overlapping of these circles creates the form the vesica piscis. Homage to the Mystery and Wisdom of the Feminine is an installation that uses the upright vesica piscis as a symbol that connects with the Great Mother. From two, come many. This form represents the portal of creation, both in life and geometry.

The Seed of Life

2016 Installation at BLAM Los Angeles, CA

Seed of LifeInstallation at BLAM Los AngelesAcrylic on Duralar6' x 12' x 2'2016Photo Credit: Panic Studio LA

2016 Installation at BLAM Los Angeles, CA
Acrylic on Duralar
6' x 12' x 2'
Photo Credit: Panic Studio LA

The Seed of Life is a geometric design created through the repetition of six overlapping circles. If the pattern is continued up to nineteen circles, the design grows to become the ancient symbol, The Flower of Life. This image has been used throughout history as a symbol of existence, creation and fertility. The inclusion of this sacred geometry in my work has become a way to connect with humanity throughout time, through the universal language of geometry.

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