This piece was commissioned by a couple who recently moved to Austin from Sydney, Australia. Looking at maps of Austin and Sydney, we noticed the prominence that water had in shaping each city and its landscape. Placing the two water bodies onto one canvas, we assigned Austin a color (dark blue), Sydney a color (light blue), and where they overlapped a color (pink). We then overlaid the topography of each city and allowed it to dictate the size of triangle used on the final tessellation. The resulting composition blends unique elements from each city thus creating the new landscape in which the couple now resides. 

2015
66"x86"
Plywood, acrylic paint, fabric

Dermal Map | Wood is from a series we designed, fabricated, and installed for an Austin spa. Totaling 11 pieces — ranging from large wall installations to smaller, more intimate pieces — each one responds to the different levels of privacy and intimacy of the space, while creating a cohesive language throughout the building. As the relationship to the body in this particular setting was essential, we examined skin at the microscopic level as a source of inspiration, allowing each piece to be unique, yet share the same DNA. From a casual glance to an extended viewing, they all told a single story. Materials were chosen for their natural qualities, longevity, and how they responded to both natural and artificial light. 

2013
5'x10'
Wood and fabric

Dermal Map | Wood is from a series we designed, fabricated, and installed for an Austin spa. Totaling 11 pieces — ranging from large wall installations to smaller, more intimate pieces — each one responds to the different levels of privacy and intimacy of the space, while creating a cohesive language throughout the building. As the relationship to the body in this particular setting was essential, we examined skin at the microscopic level as a source of inspiration, allowing each piece to be unique, yet share the same DNA. From a casual glance to an extended viewing, they all told a single story. Materials were chosen for their natural qualities, longevity, and how they responded to both natural and artificial light. 

2013
5'x10'
Brass and wire

Commissioned for a music room, this brass tessellation was based on an influential song of the client’s– "There, There" by Radiohead. After stripping the song down to its underlying structure, we assigned each section of the song a different geometric pattern. These patterns were then applied to each 4” square that represents every second of the song. 

2015
84"x60"
Brass and wire

It is often difficult to find comfort where there is little shelter. Our Tree Stumps Series was based on 90 photographs of tree stumps taken in Japan the four weeks following the 2011 tsunami. Wanting to document this event without being intrusive, we looked to the landscape for a surrogate of the emotions we observed. Drawn to the tree stumps initially for their unique contours — a striking cross-sections through their lives — we began to see in them the embodiment of a moment in time where an outside force altered the trajectory of the lives of these trees, forever changing the landscape before us. Upon returning home, these photographs served as blueprints for plaster casts, lace maps, and watercolors reflecting the unique nature and character of their specific place and time. 

2011
4.5'x12.5'
Plaster

It is often difficult to find comfort where there is little shelter. Our Tree Stumps Series was based on 90 photographs of tree stumps taken in Japan the four weeks following the 2011 tsunami. Wanting to document this event without being intrusive, we looked to the landscape for a surrogate of the emotions we observed. Drawn to the tree stumps initially for their unique contours — a striking cross-sections through their lives — we began to see in them the embodiment of a moment in time where an outside force altered the trajectory of the lives of these trees, forever changing the landscape before us. Upon returning home, these photographs served as blueprints for plaster casts, lace maps, and watercolors reflecting the unique nature and character of their specific place and time. 

2011
36"x36"
Cotton yarn, linen thread, paint, t-pins

It is often difficult to find comfort where there is little shelter. Our Tree Stumps Series was based on 90 photographs of tree stumps taken in Japan the four weeks following the 2011 tsunami. Wanting to document this event without being intrusive, we looked to the landscape for a surrogate of the emotions we observed. Drawn to the tree stumps initially for their unique contours — a striking cross-sections through their lives — we began to see in them the embodiment of a moment in time where an outside force altered the trajectory of the lives of these trees, forever changing the landscape before us. Upon returning home, these photographs served as blueprints for plaster casts, lace maps, and watercolors reflecting the unique nature and character of their specific place and time. 

2011
24"x24"
Watercolor on paper

In 2011, the Bastrop County Complex Fire burned 96% of Bastrop State Park, destroying homes and businesses, and uprooting people and their lives. Looking to the landscape for inspiration, we were drawn to the stark contrast of the burned trees intersecting the horizon. We began to see in their charred, skeletal remains a time when an outside force wiped away their old life, forever changing the landscape before us. Pyrolysis alludes to this transformation.

Gathered in Bastrop State Park, 96% of the pine needles used were carbonized into charcoal before being embedded into handmade paper. These pine needles thus represent a once thriving eco-system reduced to charcoal and used to create a similar, yet new topography. 

2015
1'x15'
Handmade paper and pine needles

Opening their first Houston location, milk + honey spa sought to transform a mundane elevator shaft into a beacon that emphasizes their identity. Starting with a photograph of cast dappled light on an exterior wall at their existing Austin location, we simplified the tones into eight shades of blue. Once we created the honeycomb pattern, we overlaid the simplified photograph and used it as a blueprint to assign each section of the honeycomb pattern a shade of blue. 

2016
8'x10'x32'
Printed Vinyl

2015
40"x80"
Nylon rope, embroidery thread, and wood

Made for the VI International Biennial of Textile Art, Mexico, 2011.
 

A cup of tea a day was documented for 144 days. By stitching each bag together a quilt emerged creating a composition of color that coveys the element of time it takes to make a cup of tea. 

2011
25"x27"
Teas bags and thread

Leaves collected from Dresden, Germany and woven together creating a tapestry of a new but familiar landscape. They reflect the moment of collection and subtle variation within each leaf. By carefully slicing each leaf into regular strips there is an organization that emerges from this woven fabric-- reinterpreting leaves that blanket a tree. 

2008
24"x36"
Leaves mounted on paper

Weaving pattern determined from the translation of text (such as a Robert Frost poem) into binary code.

Diagraming Versailles.

Overlay of Austin and Verona maps made out of handmade felt.