About my traffic utility box design:

“Whispering Breeze” 2021

Original Medium: Mixed Media

I found my installation work, Whispering Breeze, an ideal complement to the new Natural Resources Agency Headquarters — addressing sustainability and nature through my art. This work, coupled with original digital design, is a continuation of that exploration of self-identity, ritual, and spirituality while utilizing materials that promote sustainability. Using items such as recycled egg cartons, yarn, string, copper strands, and recycled aluminum, I emphasize how art can be created in a thoughtful manner using materials that would otherwise serve a more utilitarian or industrial purpose, and not be seen as "art." Whispering Breeze is my personal reverence to the spirit of my elders, and to the natural elements. Blue honors the flowing waters while orange honors the healing Sun. The pulp honors Mother Earth and the metals found within the Earth honors inner strength. The suspended nature of the work honors the cleansing spirit of the air.

About my traffic utility box design:

“Demarcations” (Series of 12), 2020

Original Medium: Steel, aluminum, wood blocks, wood skewers, river rocks and gravel, glass beads and gems, string, thread, packing envelope, placemat fabric, mirrored squares, plastic rhinestones, and beads, photocopied images, spray paint, acrylic paint, glue. Sizes vary.

Demarcations is a series of hanging sculptures that explore the concepts behind ritual, ceremony, burial, and spirituality. The works serve as a reflection — and a reverence —  for seemingly ordinary objects and how they can be symbolic of the self. I represent the struggles of the human condition, as we search for love and purpose. Human existence is one that tends to be confined by the restrictions put upon it by societal norms, traditional values, and the status quo by carefully organizing the items within a constrained framework. The binding further forces that conformity to what is familiar and expected. However, the work represents a gradual awareness of the internal struggles, as there are moments of light, self-reflection, and breakthroughs allowing the eventuality of ascension as spiritual beings, all connected and full of love.