completed: 2026, open to the public in 2027

location: Purple Line Transit Station, Lyttonsville, Maryland

dimensions: 42' H x 60' W x 2' D; 35,000 lbs

materials: Corten and Stainless Steel 

The installation replicates structural steel beams from the Historic Talbot Street Bridge. The two vertical and one horizontal elements are adorned with 52 waterjet-cut stainless steel photographic images donated by residents of this historically African American community.

completed: 2026

location:AIA Global Campus for Architecture & Design, Washington DC

dimensions: 4’ X 4’

materials: Steel, Reclaimed Architectural Elements

Crafted from reclaimed architectural elements sourced from the renovation of the AIA Global Campus and the historic Octagon, Material Memory is a sculptural sphere that explores the relationship between design, community, sustainability, and the built environment. Each salvaged building fragment contributes to a narrative of transformation. These materials, once part of private and institutional structures, are reassembled into a form that invites public reflection. 

The sphere was chosen for its symbolic and structural resonance. Its circular shape reflects unity, continuity, and the shared responsibility of shaping the environments we inhabit. As a form with no beginning or end, the sphere embodies the ongoing nature of design and collaboration, echoing how communities and buildings evolve together over time. 

By using repurposed materials, the work calls attention to the environmental impact of construction and the creative potential of reuse. Sustainability is not only embedded in the physical composition of the piece, but also in its message. The sculpture encourages a shift in mindset—from discarding to preserving, from isolation to connection. 

This sculpture stands as a physical and philosophical intersection. It celebrates history while imagining future possibilities. It honors the work of architects, builders, and communities who shape the world with intention, and it offers a space for viewers to consider how design can serve people and planet alike. 

completed: 2025

location: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland

dimensions: 20’ X 16’

materials: Stainless Steel 

This sculpture is a gift to cancer patients and their caregivers. The graceful steel form reveals itself as visitors drive onto the hospital campus, with the recognizable cancer ribbon view specifically sited for patients in the infusion center. At night, colored lights bathe the ribbon in shades of color that symbolize and draw awareness to various forms of cancer.

completed: 2024

location: Education & Health Sciences Center at University of Maryland, Frostburg, Maryland

dimensions: 26'x 14'x 5'

materials: Stainless and Corten Steel 

As humans, we are constantly gauging our physical place in the universe. We use science as a paradigm to navigate the infinitesimal terrain of subatomic particles and the unimaginable vastness around us. This sculpture poses a fictitious scientific observation, illuminating the microscopic cellular structures of human tissue and the macroscopic, geologic formations that have existed for eons. 

completed: 2023

location: International Spy Museum, L'Enfant Plaza SW Washington, DC

dimensions: 9’ x 13’

materials: Powder Coated Aluminum

Commission from the Spy Museum to create a safe, durable and wayfinding sign for the museum’s entrance.

completed: 2022

location: Ellicott Theatre, Ellicott City, Maryland

dimensions: 26’ H x 50’ W x 2' D

materials: Steel

A wheel intervenes in the flow of water, stirring its energy and harvesting it for power.

Before electricity, waterwheels propelled an industrial revolution along the Patapsco River. As waterwheels turned, laborers worked, converting wheat into flour, cotton into textiles, iron into nails.

Ellicott City’s history is entwined with water and its capacity for both progress and destruction. The waterwheel flows with the current, not against it, and is a reminder of the respect required to coexist with this beautiful and powerful ecology.

completed: 2022

location: Greensboro Science Center, Greensboro, North Carolina

dimensions: 32’ H x 75’ L x 22’ W

materials: Stainless Steel

Our perception of time and space is continually changing.

As a species, Humans have always been motivated by our sense of wonder. Using the paradigms of Art and Science we navigate the great mysteries of our existence.

With the most powerful electron microscopes, we study infinitesimally small particles called Quarks (.000000000000000043 centimeters). Space telescopes enable us to observe vast Galaxies 13,400,000,000 light-years from Earth ( a light-year is 5,879,625,370,000 miles). These tools give us perspective on our place in the universe, between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm.

Similarly, our study of Science, enables us to imagine the immense duration of billions of years of Geologic Time and the fleeting nature of a nano-second. We reside somewhere on this time continuum, between the permanent and the ephemeral.

Places like the Greensboro Science Center remind us that we are here at this moment, at this place, only once.

completed: 2022

location: Tucker Road Ice Rink, Fort Washington, Maryland

dimensions: 14'x 9'x 12' and 4 1/2' x 5'x 4 1/2'

materials: Stainless Steel

Collaboration with lighting designer Glenn Shrum. Two stainless icebergs reflect the architecture of the new Tucker Road Ice Rink and its surrounding environment. At night the hammered steel surfaces are enhanced by changing pink and green lighting, referencing the Aurora Borealis and underscoring the precarity and permanence of the natural world.

completed: 2021

location: Arlington County Fire Station 10, Arlington, VA

dimensions: 35' x 10' x 5'

materials: Stainless Steel, Flame Sprayed Bronze, LED light

Inspired by the history and function of the station, Fire Lines captures the power and energy of water being sprayed from a fire hose nozzle. The sculpture consists of a larger-than-life bronze nozzle with twisting spirals of stainless steel representing a powerful spray of water. At night, the sculpture also acts as a monumental torch with light illuminating the stainless spirals against the rich red glow of the brick façade.

completed: 2018

location:  Lake Cook, Alexandria, Virginia

dimensions: 74' x 58' x 12' 

materials: Stainless Steel

Sound Stream is an interactive installation featuring two horns, connected by pipe underground, allowing visitors to communicate with one another from opposite sides of a peninsula at Lake Cook in Alexandria, VA. The Lake and its surrounding environment inform this piece, as dramatic fluctuations in water level lead to changes in the landscape of this stormwater management site. Just as people can speak into one side of this sculpture and hear it through the other, events that occur upstream of this Lake impact the health and vibrancy of its waters. The park has become a destination due to its new exercise path, bisecting the sculpture at one location, and its popularity for trout fishing.

completed: 2017

location: PEPCO Waterfront Substation, Washington, DC

dimensions: 49’ x 30’ x 15’

materials: Stainless Steel and Copper

David and Eli Hess designed and built this monumental sculpture, paying homage to Nikola Tesla and his experiments with high voltage electricity. Programmable LED light fixtures in the balls and towers make the sculpture flash at night, simulating electricity. Located on the southeast corner of the new PEPCO Waterfront Substation, the sculpture illuminates the importance of the building that is its backdrop. The theme of electricity is imperative in DC’s newest region of development, the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood. We see this sculpture, entitled Flash Point, as the spark for the neighborhood as it continues to build, including a new home stadium for the DC United Soccer Club.

completed: 2017

location: Wilmer Park, Chestertown, MD

dimensions: 22’ x 32’ x 40’ 

materials: Stainless Steel, Grass Berms

The two sculptures, sited at the Park’s entrance, were designed to evoke nautical imagery of a wave and sail and are installed amidst earthworks meant to simulate a rolling sea framing views of the Chester River. The structural framing for this sculpture is hidden beneath the dirt and grass built up to make these sculptures interactive, allowing children and adults to run up, climb over, slide down, and explore their surfaces.

completed: 2015

location: Baltimore, MD

dimensions: 21’ x 4’ x 6’

materials: Stainless Steel

This 5-foot-tall fabricated model crawler crane is perched atop a giant stainless steel boulder, defying gravity and creating a narrative about the precarious relationship between humans and the natural world.

completed: 2014

location: Town Center Urban Park, Germantown, Maryland

dimensions: 40’ x 40’ x 15’

materials: Stainless Steel, Stone

This installation includes three stainless steel pergolas and three handrails commissioned for a public park in Germantown, MD. The twisted stainless steel pipe is fabricated to emulate the organic qualities of vines and sticks woven into this monumental architectural element. Consulting with lighting designer Debra Gilmore led to dynamic illumination of this pergola, giving it a dramatic presence into the night as well as during the day.

completed: 2014

location: City Maintenance Facility, Rockville, Maryland

dimensions: 26’ x 2’ x 10’

materials: Steel, Stainless Steel

This sculpture pays tribute to the hard-working women and men that maintain the City of Rockville’s public parks, buildings, and roads. Employees are greeted by a 6 foot long stainless steel plow truck that stands on a 26-foot-tall curving corten steel tube at the entrance to the facility.

year completed: 2012

location: Canal Park, Washington, DC

dimensions: 9’ x 16’ X 10’

materials: Stainless Steel

These three stainless steel interactive sculptural elements are located on each of the three blocks of Canal Park, which encompasses the historic Washington Canal in the heart of DC’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. The title, Waterline, speaks to the historic presence of water that once flowed through the Canal which was used to build the Nation’s Capitol.

completed: 2012

location: Pierce’s Park, Baltimore, MD

dimensions: 10’ x 35’ x 10’

materials: Stainless Steel

Designed, fabricated and installed a variety of stainless steel sculptures, tuned musical instruments, and fence for a children’s park in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The interactive sculptures were designed for children to climb on and explore. The name, Homophone, coupled with over 800 pavers engraved with homophone word pairings throughout the park, encourage children and adults to learn about wordplay and some of the anomalies of language.

completed: 2012

location: Performing Art Center of Montgomery College, Silver Spring, Maryland

dimensions: 18' x 16' x 14' 

materials: Steel, Glass, Copper

This boat-like vessel comprised of twisted steel pipe contains 18 hand-blown glass globes and is suspended in the entrance atrium of the Performing Arts building of Montgomery College. Globes seem to be spilling from the vessel, like they could begin falling from the sky at any time.

completed: 2006

location:  860 E Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD

dimensions: 22' x 15' x 8' 

materials: Copper, Bronze, Reclaimed Cellphone Tower Conductor

Cited in a bustling urban median strip, this sculpture pays tribute to the complex history of immigration in the city.

completed: 2006

location: Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, MD

dimensions: 23' x 68' x 21' 

materials: Stainless Steel

This outdoor sculpture marks the entrance to an apartment building on Wayne Avenue in Downtown Silver Spring, MD. The entire structure seems to be in tension as the vertical elements slope away from one another while being pulled back towards the center by the weight of the suspended elements. The crescent shape of the canopy frames the sky above.

completed: 2003

location: Baltimore Washington International Airport, Linthicum, Maryland

dimensions: 20’ x 60’ x 196’

materials: Steel, Aluminum

This large interior 196-foot-long sculpture weighs 13,000 pounds and is suspended from the ceiling of the Consolidated Rental Car Facility at Baltimore Washington International Airport. The engineering for this piece required the fabrication and installation to be completed as the building was being built. The rails and ball create a dynamic installation, seeming as if the ball could continue rolling at any time. This is meant to simulate the motion and kinetic energy present in a place of travel such as an airport.

completed: 2002

location: Mergenthaler Vocational High School, Baltimore, Maryland

dimensions: 10’ x 4’ x 10’ each (x5)

materials: Stainless Steel

Designed, fabricated, and installed this five-part sculpture which highlights the entrance to Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School in East Baltimore. The scale of the stainless steel elements seems larger than life, enlarged to a size which allows the installation to be interactive. In working with the building engineer, the pieces are able to hover over the entrance as students, faculty and visitors to pass beneath them every day.

completed: 2004

location: American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

dimensions: 20’ x 38’ x 38’

materials: Stainless Steel, Concrete

Perched on the facade of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, this larger-than-life bird’s nest was fabricated on-site using 6,000 linear feet of twisted stainless steel pipe. Visitors to the museum are invited to walk out onto the balcony to interact with the material and catch a view the City.

completed: 1997

location: Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, Maryland

dimensions: 50’ x 35’ x 40’

materials: Cast Iron, Steel

The piece is built from 19 large cast iron elements: gears, wheels, chain, marine rigging and boiler parts, weighing over 90 tons, collectively. These elements are salvaged from the docks and shipyards of the Port of Baltimore, nodding to the crucial role heavy industry played in making the port of Baltimore what it is today.

completed: 2005

location: Baltimore, MD

dimensions: 18' x 16' x 14' 

materials: stainless steel

Located in a childrens' park in Baltimore, this pergola structure is constructed from hundreds of linear feet of twisted stainless steel pipe. Due to the organic, vine-like quality of the stainless steel, the structure emulates a tree canopy overhead, casting mesmorizing shadows on the play surface below.

completed: 2003

location: Baltimore, MD

dimensions: 16' x 24' x 18' 

materials: Stainless Steel, Concrete

This sculpture features varying-height cylinders, each topped with a concrete sphere, huddled in a cluster amidst a forest clearing. The group of totems is meant to create a moment of precarious weight in balance as the industrial materials contrast in front of a backdrop of green.