completed: 2024
location: Frostburg, MD
dimensions: 26'x 14'x 5'
materials: Stainless and Corten Steel
As humans, we are constantly gauging our physical place in the universe. We use science as a paradigm to navigate the infinitesimal terrain of subatomic particles and the unimaginable vastness around us. This sculpture poses a fictitious scientific observation, illuminating the microscopic cellular structures of human tissue and the macroscopic, geologic formations that have existed for eons.
completed: 2022
location: Ellicott Theatre, Ellicott City, Maryland
dimensions: 26’ H x 50’ W x 2' D
materials: Steel
A wheel intervenes in the flow of water, stirring its energy and harvesting it for power.
Before electricity, waterwheels propelled an industrial revolution along the Patapsco River. As waterwheels turned, laborers worked, converting wheat into flour, cotton into textiles, iron into nails.
Ellicott City’s history is entwined with water and its capacity for both progress and destruction. The waterwheel flows with the current, not against it, and is a reminder of the respect required to coexist with this beautiful and powerful ecology.
completed: 2022
location: Greensboro Science Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
dimensions: 32’ H x 75’ L x 22’ W
materials: Stainless Steel
Our perception of time and space is continually changing.
As a species, Humans have always been motivated by our sense of wonder. Using the paradigms of Art and Science we navigate the great mysteries of our existence.
With the most powerful electron microscopes, we study infinitesimally small particles called Quarks (.000000000000000043 centimeters). Space telescopes enable us to observe vast Galaxies 13,400,000,000 light-years from Earth ( a light-year is 5,879,625,370,000 miles). These tools give us perspective on our place in the universe, between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm.
Similarly, our study of Science, enables us to imagine the immense duration of billions of years of Geologic Time and the fleeting nature of a nano-second. We reside somewhere on this time continuum, between the permanent and the ephemeral.
Places like the Greensboro Science Center remind us that we are here at this moment, at this place, only once.
completed: 2022
location: Tucker Road Ice Rink, Fort Washington, Maryland
dimensions: 14'x 9'x 12' and 4 1/2' x 5'x 4 1/2'
materials: Stainless Steel
Collaboration with lighting designer Glenn Shrum. Two stainless icebergs reflect the architecture of the new Tucker Road Ice Rink and its surrounding environment. At night the hammered steel surfaces are enhanced by changing pink and green lighting, referencing the Aurora Borealis and underscoring the precarity and permanence of the natural world.
completed: 2021
location: Arlington County Fire Station 10, Arlington, VA
dimensions: 35' x 10' x 5'
materials: stainless steel, flame sprayed bronze, LED light
Inspired by the history and function of the station, Fire Lines captures the power and energy of water being sprayed from a fire hose nozzle. The sculpture consists of a larger-than-life bronze nozzle with twisting spirals of stainless steel representing a powerful spray of water. At night, the sculpture also acts as a monumental torch with light illuminating the stainless spirals against the rich red glow of the brick façade.
completed: 2017
location: PEPCO Waterfront Substation, Washington, DC
dimensions: 49’ x 30’ x 15’
materials: stainless steel and copper
David and Eli Hess designed and built this monumental sculpture, paying homage to Nikola Tesla and his experiments with high voltage electricity. Programmable LED light fixtures in the balls and towers make the sculpture flash at night, simulating electricity. Located on the southeast corner of the new PEPCO Waterfront Substation, the sculpture illuminates the importance of the building that is its backdrop. The theme of electricity is imperative in DC’s newest region of development, the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood. We see this sculpture, entitled Flash Point, as the spark for the neighborhood as it continues to build, including a new home stadium for the DC United Soccer Club.
completed: 2017
location: Wilmer Park, Chestertown, MD
dimensions: 22’ x 32’ x 40’
materials: stainless steel, grass berms
The two sculptures, sited at the Park’s entrance, were designed to evoke nautical imagery of a wave and sail and are installed amidst earthworks meant to simulate a rolling sea framing views of the Chester River. The structural framing for this sculpture is hidden beneath the dirt and grass built up to make these sculptures interactive, allowing children and adults to run up, climb over, slide down, and explore their surfaces.
completed: 2017
location: 860 E Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 74' x 58' x 12'
materials: stainless steel
completed: 2014
location: Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 21’ x 4’ x 6’
materials: stainless steel
This 5-foot-tall fabricated model crawler crane is perched atop a giant stainless steel boulder, defying gravity and creating a narrative about the precarious relationship between humans and the natural world.
completed: 2003
location: BWI Airport, Linthicum, MD
dimensions: 20’ x 60’ x 196’
materials: steel, aluminum
This large interior 196-foot-long sculpture weighs 13,000 pounds and is suspended from the ceiling of the Consolidated Rental Car Facility at Baltimore Washington International Airport. The engineering for this piece required the fabrication and installation to be completed as the building was being built. The rails and ball create a dynamic installation, seeming as if the ball could continue rolling at any time. This is meant to simulate the motion and kinetic energy present in a place of travel such as an airport.
completed: 2012
location: Pierce’s Park, Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 10’ x 35’ x 10’
materials: stainless steel
Designed, fabricated and installed a variety of stainless steel sculptures, tuned musical instruments, and fence for a children’s park in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The interactive sculptures were designed for children to climb on and explore. The name, Homophone, coupled with over 800 pavers engraved with homophone word pairings throughout the park, encourage children and adults to learn about wordplay and some of the anomalies of language.
completed: 2014
location: Germantown, MD
dimensions: 40’ x 40’ x 15’
materials: stainless steel, stone
This installation includes three stainless steel pergolas and three handrails commissioned for a public park in Germantown, MD. The twisted stainless steel pipe is fabricated to emulate the organic qualities of vines and sticks woven into this monumental architectural element. Consulting with lighting designer Debra Gilmore led to dynamic illumination of this pergola, giving it a dramatic presence into the night as well as during the day.
completed: 2002
location: Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 10’ x 4’ x 10’ each (x5)
materials: stainless steel
Designed, fabricated, and installed this five-part sculpture which highlights the entrance to Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School in East Baltimore. The scale of the stainless steel elements seems larger than life, enlarged to a size which allows the installation to be interactive. In working with the building engineer, the pieces are able to hover over the entrance as students, faculty and visitors to pass beneath them every day.
completed: 2004
location: Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 20’ x 38’ x 38’
materials: stainless steel, concrete
Perched on the facade of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, this larger-than-life bird’s nest was fabricated on-site using 6,000 linear feet of twisted stainless steel pipe. Visitors to the museum are invited to walk out onto the balcony to interact with the material and catch a view the City.
year completed: 2012
location: Canal Park, Washington, DC
dimensions: 9’ x 16’ X 10’
materials: stainless steel
These three stainless steel interactive sculptural elements are located on each of the three blocks of Canal Park, which encompasses the historic Washington Canal in the heart of DC’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. The title, Waterline, speaks to the historic presence of water that once flowed through the Canal which was used to build the Nation’s Capitol.
completed: 2013
location: Rockville, MD
dimensions: 26’ x 2’ x 10’
materials: steel, stainless steel
This sculpture pays tribute to the hard-working women and men that maintain the City of Rockville’s public parks, buildings, and roads. Employees are greeted by a 6 foot long stainless steel plow truck that stands on a 26-foot-tall curving corten steel tube at the entrance to the facility.
completed: 1995
location: Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 50’ x 35’ x 40’
materials: cast iron, steel
The piece is built from 19 large cast iron elements: gears, wheels, chain, marine rigging and boiler parts, weighing over 90 tons, collectively. These elements are salvaged from the docks and shipyards of the Port of Baltimore, nodding to the crucial role heavy industry played in making the port of Baltimore what it is today.
completed: 2005
location: Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 18' x 16' x 14'
materials: stainless steel
Located in a childrens' park in Baltimore, this pergola structure is constructed from hundreds of linear feet of twisted stainless steel pipe. Due to the organic, vine-like quality of the stainless steel, the structure emulates a tree canopy overhead, casting mesmorizing shadows on the play surface below.
completed: 2009
location: Rockville, MD
dimensions: 18' x 16' x 14'
materials: steel, glass, copper
This boat-like vessel comprised of twisted steel pipe contains 18 hand-blown glass globes and is suspended in the entrance atrium of the Performing Arts building of Montgomery College. Globes seem to be spilling from the vessel, like they could begin falling from the sky at any time.
completed: 2003
location: Baltimore, MD
dimensions: 16' x 24' x 18'
materials: stainless steel, concrete
This sculpture features varying-height cylinders, each topped with a concrete sphere, huddled in a cluster amidst a forest clearing. The group of totems is meant to create a moment of precarious weight in balance as the industrial materials contrast in front of a backdrop of green.
completed: 2006
location: Silver Spring, MD
dimensions: 23' x 68' x 21'
materials: stainless steel
This outdoor sculpture marks the entrance to an apartment building on Wayne Avenue in Downtown Silver Spring, MD. The entire structure seems to be in tension as the vertical elements slope away from one another while being pulled back towards the center by the weight of the suspended elements. The crescent shape of the canopy frames the sky above.
completed: 2017
location: Alexandria, VA
dimensions: 74' x 58' x 12'
materials: stainless steel
Sound Stream is an interactive installation featuring two horns, connected by pipe underground, allowing visitors to communicate with one another from opposite sides of a peninsula at Lake Cook in Alexandria, VA. The Lake and its surrounding environment inform this piece, as dramatic fluctuations in water level lead to changes in the landscape of this stormwater management site. Just as people can speak into one side of this sculpture and hear it through the other, events that occur upstream of this Lake impact the health and vibrancy of its waters. The park has become a destination due to its new exercise path, bisecting the sculpture at one location, and its popularity for trout fishing.
