Celebration of Earth Day & Earth Week 2015; a collection of 21 pine cones (18 suspended) of various sizes and shapes.

Responding to the architecture of Santiago Calatrava's parabolic arched roof as a post-modern forest made of “steel in the city” - this exhibit was a simple extension of that metaphor to have oversized pine cones floating in this space. "Colonization" compares the aggressive and innocuous nature of seeds and highlights their potential. Themes of environmental destruction and manipulation run throughout the work, while the beauty of the urban forest creates hopefulness towards a cooperative future where modern life and environmental mindfulness collide.