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Stone Circle Bench 1, 2 2025Participatory, Land, Sculpture, 
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Textile
Energy Poles: Big Dipper (Lifesaver)2024
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Black Forest: Providence 2023-ongoingParticipatory, Land
Black Forest: St. Louis 2023-ongoingParticipatory, Land
Black Forest: Seattle 2023-ongoingParticipatory, Land
Black Forest: Florida City 2023-ongoingParticipatory, Land
Black Forest: Melvindale 2022-ongoingParticipatory, Land
A Counting: Boston-Cambridge 2022-ongoingParticipatory, Sound Installation
Deconstructed Anthems: Nebraska 2022Music, Performance, Participatory, Installation
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Energy Poles: Peace (Peacemaker) 2021Participatory, Light, Installation
Deconstructed Anthems: Washington, D.C. 2018Music, Performance
Deconstructed Anthems: United States 2017Music, Performance, Light, Installation

Energy Poles: Big Dipper (Lifesaver)
2025

Video by Roadwork.


Energy Poles: Big Dipper (Lifesaver)
2024
Blackened steel pipes, white acrylic tubes, LED strips, custom electronics, Arizona river rocks, wood panels and frames
96 x 384 x 144 in (243.84 x 975.36 x 365.76 cm)
Commissioned by City of Glendale, NASA JPL for PST ART: Art and Science Collide


How can we become stars in the life-saving constellation of the Big Dipper?Lifesaver is an ode to the collective efforts of the Underground Railroad conductors who used the Drinking Gourd, a coded song and map to guide tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans in the south to freedom. The chorus “Follow drinkin' gourd“ was code for follow the Big Dipper, an astrological constellation and celestial compass used to orient enslaved people towards the North Star, direct them above the Mason-Dixon Line and into free states. This interactive installation invites you to use your body as a conductor to energetically connect the light poles and collectively illuminate new paths to freedom.

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