TEXT/TILE is an immersive terra cotta tiled outdoor courtyard commissioned by the City of San Diego's Commission for Arts and Culture for the Pacific Highlands Ranch Library. The project is conceptually tied to the earliest libraries which were comprised of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script

Each tile in the tile set is a letter-- creating a word-find with text in English, Spanish and Kumeyaay.

*Cultural and Language Consultants include Itza Vilaboy, Ana Gloria Rodriguez, Barona Museum and Michael Miswich.

*Fabricated by Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, MX.

TEXT/TILE is an immersive terra cotta tiled outdoor courtyard commissioned by the City of San Diego's Commission for Arts and Culture for the Pacific Highlands Ranch Library. The project is conceptually tied to the earliest libraries which were comprised of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script.
Each tile in the tile set is a letter-- creating a word-find with text in English, Spanish and Kumeyaay.

Cultural and Language Consultants include Itza Vilaboy, Ana Gloria Rodriguez, Barona Museum and Michael Miswich.

Fabricated by Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, MX.

A steel gateway that formalizes a neighborhood paseo with vistas of Tijuana projects the shadow UNDER THE SAME SUN/ BAJO EL MISMO SOL onto the ground.
Commissioned by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture for HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD: SAN YSIDRO

Constellation for a Conundrum is a three-dimensional rendering of two different solution strategies to the classic “9 dots puzzle.”
The puzzle is composed of a simple nine-dot grid, three in each row. The challenge is to connect the dots by drawing no more than four straight, continuous lines that pass through each dot—without lifting pencil from paper. Herein lies the conundrum.

Nine objects are suspended from the ceiling representing the nine dots. The aluminum pipe forms a constellation configured to match the solutions to the puzzle. Here, the phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ is most apparent, as it is a restatement of the solution strategy.