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Live & Be Free, 2026

kinetic sculpture, steel and mirrored acrylic
in residence with Eden Forest Collective

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I’m grateful to share “Live & Be Free”, my first kinetic installation, created in residency with Eden Forest Collective. Eden is practicing regenerative Syntropic forestry (a system built on the opposite of entropy), organizing and accumulating life, energy, and resources through ecological succession and layered growth. “Live & Be Free” is a meditation on sensitivity, the delicate, and ecosystem balance.

I began mobile-making some years ago as a tactile exploration of non-duality in my recovery from fundamentalist belief systems. Expanding on the mobile form popularized by Alexander Calder in the 1930s, these delicate creations begin at their smallest part: one circular mirror balanced against its identical counterpart; equal weights, sizes, each balancing the other. But zooming out, these opposites are balanced with something greater — a third element, a third perspective, eye. Suddenly the ‘either/or’ becomes ‘either/and’, and the very constraints of binary thinking reveal the existence of something greater. The sequence unfolds on and on – what feels like a trap of two choices opens into infinite space. In this way, we don’t reject binary thinking, but rather use it to expand outside its own limitations. Each mirrors are the reflections, perspectives, and dimensions of reality held by and in tension with every other.

The process of construction is also its own therapeutic process. Each balance point is delicately reached. A few millimeters in any direction is enough to drastically alter the entire arrangement. Even the smallest piece holds great significance in the ecosystem, and without it, the entire system must greatly adjust.

On numerous occasions during construction, the wind became so powerful the entire piece collapsed to the ground. Its fragility is inherent to its beauty, a hypnotic meditation on light, wind, gravity… an infinity of mirrored perspectives reflecting, altering, and shifting surroundings. They reflect outward to the earth, and inward to themselves, as if a conscious entity itself.

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