These sculptures are part of a series of work that reimagines cosmological structures of the past: the firmament, the great deep, the ocean of heaven, etc... as architectural backbones of our future infrastructure and defining forces of an emerging technocratic nature. These works are speculative models of designed atmosphere and weather. They are desperate architectures of control, utopian fragments from the imagination of green capital, aestheticized and run to oblivion.

In religious cosmology, the sky was conceptualized as a physical structure – a firmament – that separated earth from the oceans of heavens. Firmament Arch and Firmament Truss reference contemporary proposals for technocratic systems of food production and re-imagines them as the firmament structures of tomorrow. The curved backbone of the work houses a network of tanks, tubes, pumps, and nozzles that create an aeroponic growing environment. Here, domesticated plants grow in irregular and confined spaces with minimal water waste or reliance on natural light.

Image is from Initial Conditions at the Emerson Center for the Arts in Bozeman, MT.