I endeavor in my personal life to work with others on developing creations that combine art and science into an ecological, educational, and inspirational space for exploration.

Science Tarot

Available at the Exploratorium Museum Store

Deck Published in 2010, Playa Installation in 2003

Science Tarot is a creative science communication project that combines science, art and mythology into a tarot deck to engage and awaken people's curiosity about science and the natural world.
As co-creator and product manager, directed our team of artists and writers through creation, publication, and promotion of deck, culminating with launch party event at CA Academy of Sciences "NightLife" in 2010.

The Gardens at Lake Merritt: Autumn Lights Festival, CA

2018 - 2023

Softly lit hand-crafted paper lanterns and sound installation, creating a warm inviting space that celebrates and illuminates the often overlooked smaller elements of life found under Coastal Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia), and other California native habitats.

Listen to "Buzzwords" on Soundcloud: Sound sculptures of large illuminated paper wasp nests, the hive cells glow and emit a chorus of human beings imitating the sounds of bees, crickets, cicadas, mosquitos, bumbles, katydids, hoverflies, and ants.

Transport Your Head

Black Rock City, NV & San Francisco, CA

2009

Transport Your Head was a science art installation involving four hollow sculpted spherical geodes, each 3' in diameter, raised to shoulder height by sturdy bamboo tripods. Insert your head through an opening on the underside, to view and hear an immersive diorama within.
Each geode contained panoramic sights and sounds from Earth's distant past: Pleistocene, Jurassic, Silurian, and Paleoproteozoic.

Black Rock Desert, NV

2005

To create a place for campers to wash, convene, enjoy a garden space in the desert, and increase the productivity of the greywater evaporation ponds with the use of plants native to the alkaline flats of the Big Basin area.