LAPIS RESURGENS (2022) Performative installation (limestone, clay, fire, water). Yellow Bird, Woodbury, Tennessee. Videography Emily C. Thomas.


URBAN YARD (2023) Landscape commission, Amsterdam.


SHEW STONES (2018 — ) Series of obsidian objects, smartphone-sized, for social practice. With Emily C. Thomas. Burns, Oregon.


INVERTED BIRD BLIND (2016 — 2017) Permanent installation (salvaged timber, white paint, ca. 2 x 4 x 2 m). 75 species of bird seen by me on the 175 acres of Yellow Bird, painted from memory. Curated by David Wood, Yellow Bird, Woodbury, Tennessee.


VIRGO RISING (2016) Installation celebrating the Fall equinox (1300ft line of solar-charged lights, engraving in limestone slab, ca. 1.5 x 1.5 m in situ). With Emily C. Thomas. Yellow Bird, Woodbury, Tennessee.


FIELD LINES (2016) Temporary installation (chalk spray, masking tape, AO-size poster). Hypothetical re-alignment to Earth's magnetic field of Aldo van Eyck's orphanage, Amsterdam (Sandberg Institute graduation exhibition). Photography Marijn Smulders.


FALCON FLIGHT (2016) Virtual reality experience. City of Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Zuid. Curated by TAAK.


PROBIOTICS FOR PUBLIC SPACE (2016) Temporary installation (lava, organisms). VU Hortus penjing garden, Amsterdam.


OAK SCARF (2014) Social practice. Willem Arntszhoeve, Den Dolder (student project, Cure Master, Sandberg Instituut). Photos Anton Mansour.


IJDOORN BIRD BLIND (2012 — 2014) Landscape commission. Polder IJdoorn, Vereniging Natuurmonumenten. Photo Elmer van der Marel.


ANT TRAIL (2008) Temporary installation (collage of video-stills printed on photo paper). Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.


JIGSAW CHAIR (2007 — 2012) Furniture prototypes (plywood, high-pressure laminate). Amsterdam.


CHAIN LINK (2006) Furniture prototypes (recycled cardboard, mdf, iron clamping levers). Amsterdam.


BIRDWALK (2004) Installation (digital print ca. 1.5 x 4 m, bamboo sculptures of variable dimensions). Graduation, Architectural Design department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.


NO TITLE (2003) Installation (bamboo, latex paint, area ca. 1 x 0.5 km). Ruigoord.


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