In May 2019, seven panels were installed at Rhoneymeade Arboretum and Sculpture Garden in Centre Hall, PA, overlooking land stewarded by ClearWater Conservancy. The panels were reinstalled by request for summer 2020.
The designs are produced using a linocut printmaking process. Each design is hand‑drawn, transferred to rubber‑based material, carved, and hand‑printed with black ink. High-quality scans are digitally combined, scaled, and printed at full size on clear acrylic sheets.
Each clear panel is coated with a UV‑ and scratch‑resistant material. The panels are mounted to a custom‑engineered combination of steel and PVC; the result is strong enough to weather months of sun, rain, wind, and cold, and yet able to rotate in a light breeze.
Ten‑foot steel poles are driven into the ground; PVC sleeves are attached to the remaining six feet to support the artwork and allow rotation. The installation was designed to leave the land in its original state after the installation, and did not need a concrete base.
A series of seven Window Studies composed of cut pieces of wax paper and tracing paper quilted onto clear acrylic. The windows reveal the circle series linocuts used for Turning Point mounted behind the dowel made frame. This series set the ground work for the outdoor installation at Rhoneymeade through experimenting with transparency, durability, and weight. My interest in human interaction with multi-dimensional art started with these delicate panels.
