Steel, Wood, String, Light Bulbs, Wire – 2026

A reminder of the Akron, Ohio music scene (the “Akron Sound”) of 1976 – 1983. USB powered for convenience.

Steel, speaker cloth, wood, transducer, Amplifier – 2024

odd resonances are emitted from the house binding. house binding spreads its sounds through any surface it is placed on. This makes The source unclear.

House Binding’s emission

Carved alabaster – 2024

A novel shape for dipping bread in a good quality olive oil.

Watch the oil flow

Then enjoy bread from the oil pool…

Wood, speaker, microphone, steel wire, Copper wire, electronics, audio amplifier – 2024

This conversation is a feedback loop.

The speaker converses with the microphone. The microphone is mounted to an articulating arm. Feedback occurs when they get close to each other. The speaker ejects the microphone when they make contact. Adjusting volume affects the intensity and speed of the chatter.

Demonstration video

Steel, circuit boards, lights, misc. electronics components, wire, solder, hardware – 2024

(The Reifier relies on our tendency to project utterly meaningful assumed truths onto (conveniently) structured, arbitrary information.)

The Reifier is a scientific electrical device. It surmises and transcribes the inner emotions of whomever wears it into convenient and knowable words.

As the wearer speaks or moves their jaw, a button is pressed. This controls The Reifier, displaying an output with each press. This output can be used to understand the wearer’s state of being. each light corresponds to a specific mood or desire. The Quick Lookup Guide (below) diagrams each light’s associated meaning.

The Reifier uses no microcontrollers. Its circuitry is purpose built, making use of simple logic ICs and other discrete components. It uses a technology called core rope memory, which is a method of data storage that is programmed through the weaving of wires in and around magnetic cores. 

Demonstration video

Quick Lookup Guide (click to expand)

Steel, silicone tubing, water pump, power supply – 2023

A Slow dripping fountain made of steel. Water is recirculated by a pump concealed in the base.

Demonstration video

wood, acrylic, paper, electronics – 9x9x18″ – 2023

A sealed box which broadcasts the sound within itself. You can “tune into” last Fluesday on 94.7 FM.

Inspired by Duchamp’s With Hidden Noise (1916) and 50cc of Paris Air (1919).

All we’re allowed of Last Fluesday are the auditory and visual entrapments within this box, when it was last allowed to absorb the environment as it was; for it was then sealed with helical fasteners turned by a long and skinny rotator quite visibly angry.

Construction materials, digital photo frame, landline phone, electronics – Tortuga Gallery, Abq NM – 2022

Interactive installation sculpture. This piece was on display at the Taylor Town event, housed by Tortuga Gallery in Albuquerque’s South Broadway neighborhood. 

Answering the phone prompts a voicemail to play. There are 30 voicemails, with a random one selected each time the handset is picked up. Each voicemail was an interpretation of the prompt “something an angry, stifled suburban parent would say”.

The adjacent photo frame plays a looping slideshow of several hundred local real-estate photos.

rammed earth and metal sculpture – 2019

Work commissioned by the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. My design proposal was selected by the refuge and Constructed by students in UNM’s Art and Ecology program.

Sculpture depicts 100 years of rainwater variance and declining precipitation as recorded at the refuge.

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