Retina
2002
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

“Retina” was a model of the visual system. I programmed the lights to illuminate the separate synaptic from the rods and cones back to the optic nerve, showing viewers the cellular structure that they, themselves were using to see the artwork.

Synapse
2001
Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

“Synapse” was a fragment of invented architectural neurobiology growing out of the cinderblock, ducts and plumbing pipes at Raid Projects.

Synapse. Styrofoam, silk, polymer medium, incandescent light, plumbing tubes, lamp cord.

Detail of synaptic orb.

Osmosis
2001
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

“Osmosis” was the product of a month-long HARP residency where I transformed the gallery and $1000 of materials from Home Depot into a laboratory for research into invented luminous biology.

Retina. Styrofoam, silk, acrylic and incandescent light, 10’x10’x40’

Detail of photoreceptors.

Evenflow
2000
Artist’s Studio, Jersey City, NJ

Installation in progress: glow-in-the dark invented biology.