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Technicolor Forest / Department of Cultural Affairs, Culver City CA Technicolor Forest 2021 Proposal Dimensions: 60ft Tree, Phase I – 300′ x 50′ Phase II – 300′ x 150′Materials: Natural materials, concrete, local stone and flora Department of Cultural Affairs, Culver City, California Technicolor Forest provides the community, visitors, working people and businesses a placeContinue reading

Hollow Ground / MASS MoCA Hollow Ground 2020Dimensions: 48ft x 52ft x 18.6ftMaterials: Recycled foam & ploy fiber, eco resin, paint, steel, and dissolving permafrostMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA In 2019, De St. Croix visited Utqiagvik, Alaska, to observe the dissolving permafrost as a result of climate change. Using the language ofContinue reading

Alchemist Triptych / MASS MoCA Alchemist Triptych 2020Dimensions: 14ft x 14ft x 38ftMaterials: Recycled foam, metal leaf, chains, aluminum, hardware, and paintMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA Alchemist Triptych depicts three tornado-like structures in gold, silver, and copper. The forms represent mineral mines extracted from the earth in tapering concentric rings, dangling andContinue reading

Cold Front / MASS MoCA Cold Front 2020Collaborative with Public Artist Paul AmentaDimensions: 33 ft x 34 ft x 4 ft deepMaterials: Moving video projection of melting glaciers, 67,000 recycled water bottles flaked, recycled cotton & foam, eco-resin, glueMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA De St. Croix often uses recycled materials in hisContinue reading

Over Ice / MASS MoCA Over Ice 2020Dimensions: 12.5’ x 13.5’ x .5’Materials: Cast white cotton paperMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA Over Ice is a stark white topography made from handmade paper. Based on-site photography in Svalbard, the work gives the viewer a sense of aerially surveying the landscape below. This shiftContinue reading

Industry and Nature / Downtown City Garage, Durham NC Industry and Nature 2020 ProposalCollaborative with Architects Samuel Brissette and Lara KaufmanDimensions: Screen thickness 2’ to 3’, 30’ x 70’, one and a half stories off the groundMaterials: Standard screens, brackets, and clamps hardware. Screen system layered screens.Downtown City Garage, Durham, North Carolina On the approachContinue reading

East River Current / New Public School, Queens NY East River Current 2013 ProposalDimensions: 80′ x 12′ x 15′Materials: Concrete, Natural material, inlaid stonePublic School, Queens, New York New Public School located near the East River in Queens, New York.  Education public artwork about the East River its water, wetlands, bird, and fish. To view theContinue reading

Tree Lines / The College of New Jersey Tree Lines 2020 ProposalCollaborative with Architects Samuel Brissette and Lara KaufmanDimensions: Approximately 60 feet acrossMaterials: Cast stone, two large red oak trees, Eco grass, granite crushed granite for walkway(s).The College of New Jersey, New Jersey Proposed to be located in front of Travers & Wolfe Hall TreeContinue reading

Phantom Dunes / New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM Phantom Dunes 2021 Proposal Dimensions: 30’ x 12’ x 9’, 6” highMaterials: Natural materials, concrete, local stone and flora Devasthali Hall, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico This three-dimensional public sculpture allows one to walk through, around and into the form, it presentsContinue reading