February

I just finished a new drawing for the exhibition at Mass Moca.  The show is called Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape and is curated by Denise Markonish.  The drawing is titled Spinning Tree for Spent Oil.

I started meeting with the engineering faculty and students at the University of New Haven.  They will be assisting me with the design of the project.  After a few brainstorming sessions I came up with these models.  They spin but not very well.  I guess I'll head back to the drawing board...

November

Today Denise, Diana and I visited a wind farm in Vermont.  It was incredible!  Those massive spinning blades cutting through the wind was amazing.

Tree Turbine

This blog will follow the progress of the Tree Turbine project as it moves from an animated concept video to an actual spinning tree that will generate electricity.