Welcome
As I molded laser absorbing dyes, testing and evaluating them for laser protective eyewear, I remember being startled by the most vibrant blue I had ever seen. Working in my first job after graduating as an electrical engineer, I couldn’t help but also be surprised by the large amount of resulting optical material ending up in landfills.
Because it had no other use besides research, I wanted to find a way to recycle this waste matter. As I started sculpting the material into all sorts of odd alien looking shapes and hanging them around the lab, I learned to manipulate the machinery and my processes to accomplish a specific artistic goal.
As a plastics engineer, I create public art that does more than aesthetically enhance the space in which it is placed. I hope to create art that places science at the forefront of the public imagination, particularly the modern disciplines of optics and sustainable design.
My art installations contain vibrant colors that result from the absorption and transmission of specific wavelengths of light from the recycled transparent plastic that all of my art is made from. Because the material can be cut and formed to any shape or dimension, my invention can replace stained or textured glass for many purposes.