Plans that never happened
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Phantom Zoetrope: A Civic Animation Engine
A public art project that revives the 19th-century zoetrope using modern materials and community collaboration, turning any park or plaza into a hand-cranked animation studio.
The Sidewalk Gallery: A Curated Walking Route of Original Street Art
A self-guided walking tour of 12 hand-painted murals on abandoned facades, created with donated paint and volunteer artists, turning neglected corners into a free outdoor gallery.
Echoes of the Abyss: A Deep-Sea Light and Sound Installation at the Mariana Trench
A permanent, self-powered light and sound installation that translates the crushing pressure and frigid silence of the Challenger Deep into a meditative experience for remote viewers and future submersible explorers.
The Grand Flavor Parade: A Mobile Sensory Feast
A roving parade of absurd, flavor-themed floats combining scent, taste, sound, and sight, celebrating culinary diversity through joyful community collaboration.
The Tide Canvas: Murano Glass Kinetics on Venice's Canals
A permanent, tide-responsive light installation spanning the Grand Canal, using handmade Murano glass buoys and LEDs to paint the city's water rhythms in real time.
The Synesthetic Earth: A Planetary Data-Driven Light & Land Art Installation
Translate real-time global data—weather, seismic activity, social media sentiment, and more—into a synchronized, planetary-scale light and sound installation visible from orbit, turning Earth into a living canvas for humanity's collective pulse.
The Memory Palace of Lost Libraries
A series of intricate, mixed-media dioramas recreating destroyed libraries as miniature immersive installations, each hiding a layered audio narrative triggered by proximity and light.
The Beginner's Atlas: A City Drawn by Everyone Who's Never Drawn Before
A massive, evolving map of Chicago drawn entirely by absolute beginners—people who swear they can't draw—using only cheap ballpoint pens on Tyvek. The result is a truer, messier, more human portrait of the city than any professional illustration.
The Cartography of Invisible Lines
A solo artist maps the unspoken boundaries people navigate in cities—safety lines, social edges, emotional territories—by translating interview data and GPS shadows into embroidered silk maps.
The Beginner's Atlas of Lost Techniques
A traveling public art installation where absolute beginners learn forgotten crafts—basket weaving, clay slip casting, natural dyeing—through immersive, sensor-rich 'recipe stations' that guide hands without words.
The Silent Switchboard
A nomadic network of handcrafted books that whisper secrets through ciphers, hidden compartments, and handwritten annotations — no screens, no servers, just paper and ink.
Soloist: A Generative Self-Portrait Engine That Evolves With Data
A daily generative art project that renders a unique self-portrait from a single person's biometric and contextual data streams, exploring identity as a dataset.
The Chromatic Cloisters: A Transient Stained-Glass Network for Forgotten Urban Spaces
A no-budget art project to transform gray underpasses, bus shelters, and alleyways into shimmering color fields using only discarded plastics and natural light—built with scavenged materials and zero city permission.