Observed
Butterflies landed on the sculptures throughout installation.
The moths stayed later.
People looked upward.
A conversation over nachos during the site visit continued at the exhibition opening.
Leaving Wisconsin felt different than arriving.
August 2025
Field Notes
Places leave behind evidence.
Sometimes it survives as architecture.
Sometimes as stories.
Sometimes as a single object.
Research became collecting.
Collecting became composition.
Every piano key had already lived another life.
A building remembers differently than a person.
Archives are another form of landscape.
May 2026
Aeolian Commission
Tremont Flats, Meriden, Connecticut
2026
Harmonious Hills
Piano keys, steel
43 x 4 feet
Meriden Memories
Collage
40 x 60 inches
Commissioned for Tremont Flats, a redevelopment of Meriden's historic Aeolian Company piano factory, this project includes two site-specific works that respond to the building's history and the surrounding landscape. Research into the site's industrial and cultural past guided the development of both pieces, incorporating authentic piano keys, archival materials, postcards, and found objects.
Hundreds of reclaimed piano keys trace the silhouette of the Hanging Hills, linking the building's history as the former Aeolian Company piano factory with one of Meriden's most recognizable landscapes.
Constructed from postcards, archival documents, and artifacts connected to Meriden and the Aeolian Company, the collage layers fragments of local history into a visual record of place, inviting viewers to discover connections across generations.
