Worlds Within Worlds, located in the Elizabeth Area of Charlotte, NC, consists of four streetcar shelters. The neighborhood is shaded by large, tall trees, and softly cocooned by an abundance of plants. In contrast to the hustle and bustle of commerce-minded Downtown Charlotte which it borders, Elizabeth, with its extant Arts & Crafts period architecture, is a rare historical part of Charlotte, much cherished by its residents. On the large central laminated glass panels set within Art Deco frames, I overlapped soft, wavy layers of translucent patterns to convey a dreamy sense, liquid, and changing. In the comfort of our homes we tend to be relaxed: the windscreens refer to internal states of mind and feature trees — and in one — a rose.  Each station has a side etched glass panel filled with lace or fabric-designs that call domesticity to mind. I was also commissioned to design printed vinyl seat covering fabric and ceiling panels for the GoldLynx streetcar trains.

 

Commissioned by Charlotte Area Transit System Art in Transit
Installed: 2021
Fabricator: Moon Shadow Glass, Inc.
Photographer:  Mitchell Kearney

 

Nature Provides is an 8 x 18-ft mosaic and glass mural installed at the Western State Hospital’s Patient Services Center in Lakewood, WA. The mural with its spherical forms, flower and plant references bursts with whimsical energy; it uses visual means to capture the abundance of nature and its life-enhancing capacities. With its repetitive, circular, and spherical forms the mural refers to life on both the macro and micro level by suggesting a planetary and cosmic sphere as well as a biological, cellular, and atomic realm.

 

Commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission.
Installed: 2020
Fabricator: Miotto Mosaics Art Studio
Photographer: Dale C. Lang

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In Memory of My Father is a 20-ft high, 3-ft diameter mosaic column installed at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Two linear Chinese dragons are set against a decorated background filled with illusionistic bas relief spheres. The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is a major port of entry to the Far East, and Seattle has a significant portion of Asian-American population, thus the nod to the Orient.

 

Commissioned by Port of Seattle and Art4Culture.
Installed: 2004
Fabricator: Miotto Mosaics Art Studio
Photographers: Spike Mafford and Amy Cheng

In Our Own Backyard features examples of twenty wildflowers native to the State of Idaho. The mural, although stylistically contemporary, borrows its curvilinear shapes from Art Nouveau, a turn of the century art movement based on, and inspired by, ancient Egyptian Art. Across the street from the Bus Terminal is a historical Egyptian Theatre and concert venue inaugurated in 1927.

 

Commissioned by the Boise City Department of Art & History
Installed 2017
Fabricator: Surbeck Waterjet
Photographer: Allison Corona

Located in downtown Odessa, TX, Big Skies consists of four printed vinyl-covered traffic boxes. The images are an imaginative visual metaphor for life in Odessa: the big sky, the flatness of the land, the dryness, oil rigs, nature, and the self-reliance of its people. Odessa’s geographical isolation and limited population makes it hard for arts, culture, and commerce to easily thrive. People are thrown on their own resources and much of life is lived internally. Big Skies uses the visual language of layers, transparency, movement, space, spatial illusion, imagery, abstraction, repetition, and geometry to refer poetically, referentially, to the life we live in our bodies, in our hearts, within our brains, and in our souls. It propounds the notion that life – like an iceberg – exists mostly under the surface.

Commissioned by: Odessa Council for the Arts & Humanities

Installed: 2016

Photographer: Steve Goff