Today our world's mechanisms have mostly become miniscule and buried in plastic and silicon and we no longer see how things work. The Steampunk Garden intends to reveal insights into the hidden forces of nature and make visible the mechanical systems that power our landscapes...

     The Gonzo Garden Series is inspired by three major forces: the California garden style of the 1940's and 1950's developed by Thomas Church and Garret Eckbo; the cubist gardens exhibited in the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes; and the spontaneous prose of Jack Kerouac, based on improvisational Jazz...

     The importance for energy conserving design became apparent in the early 1970's when the oil crisis alerted the world to its dependence on diminishing fossil fuel reserves. I have been exploring the potential of the classical and historical garden as a framework for passive energy systems and ecological networks...

     My site-specific environmental installations consider new directions in landscape architecture from an environmental aesthetic that views landscape as an art form. These installations attempt to evoke natural forces in order to transform the way we understand landscape...

     As a counterpoint to the planning and design of large-scale landscapes in a corporate office, I was moved to create smaller, controlled environments that I call "garden reliquaries." I chose the format of small box constructions because it seemed to me to be one of the best forms to inspire wonder and mystery...

     Too often we think of the art of landscape as being limited to gardens and earth sculptures of human scale. When we miniaturize, categorize, and seal a landscape under glass, that landscape becomes precious, contained and therefore static. The garden in this form becomes a sacred object-a meditation on the relationship between nature, man and garden...

     For many years I have been involved in the research and construction of Claude mirrors and optical devices, from the scale of hand held mirrors, lenses and scopes, to site-specific installations. My optical devices are built to frame, condense, reflect and tint the surrounding landscape and to raise the visual awareness of the observer by producing never before seen vistas....