I once packed up my art in a portable file to have professionally shot before a solo show and had to finesse it into the back of a taxi cab. I told the taxi driver I was grateful it fit, conveniently taxi-sized art....to which he looked up at a big truck ahead of us and said "Maybe someday you'll make truck size." I could have hugged him.

It's been amazing season of back to back installations + they keep getting bigger!

The Ridgewood Times installation gave birth to my latest at Northside Piers in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I was delighted to find that the building is directly across the street from the 1st loft I moved into when I arrived in NYC. This building and the pier they built to enjoy the animated waterfront are certainly better neighbors than the recycling center they replaced. Movin' on up!

Here's the story, mostly told in pictures:


The original proposal - the process always takes on a life of it's own - especially at this scale, but the good folks kept the vision and I think the result added more color and texture than originally anticipated. The concept was autumnal ivy -which you never see growing on glass and which would remain up before and after actual Autumn.


The big art is helping me work through my fear of heights.


Night view from above




Afternoon shadows


Homage to the spring installation- a portion of those windows are framed here behind the doorman with reflective backing. The effect creates another window of sorts and multiplies the "blossom" line work.


Sunset, installed!

And sunset from the East River...amazing.

On the pier they built + looking back at the building.

It should be up until 2011, I'm happy to lead tours or let you know how to visit. More pictures here

And a BIG thanks to Eric Gjerde (he actually wrote the book on tessellated origami)who let's me have my way with his origami crease patterns. Someone was suggested the shapes looked like Rubic's non-cubes...I think they might look a little like one of his recent folds here.
Cheers!