the field, 2026

the field: extended family

The Field will activate The Family Sculputure during the Peoria Light @ Play Festival, 2026

The Field examines humanity’s relationship to the natural world, exploring how human actions shape and interconnect with the non-human environment. By scaling up microscopic organisms and organic life forms around the family bronze sculpture, the work visualizes the invisible biological networks that sustain all existence across various time periods and our profound interdependence with nature. The digital installation features 3 digital sculptures of organic life forms inspired by Arizona native plants positioned around the family bronze sculpture. The native Amoreuxia palmatifida flower reflects 90 percent of ultraviolet wavelengths from their large, curved orange petals and are visited and buzz-pollinated by carpenter bees, bumble bees, and a few other smaller native bees. Stalked Crinoids, which used to exist in the region 400 million years ago when Arizona was underwater grow from the ground while Sea Feathers float around in the air.

These enlarged organisms become visible through visitors’ smartphones via WebAR, creating an immersive field of biological forms that shift in scale as visitors move. Interaction with the experiece triggers visible magnetic lines offering a view into the invisible electromagnetic and biochemical field that connects all life forms with their environment. Emerging from the field around the family sculpture are new organic entities of expanded kinship with non-human life. As visitors interact with and walk through these forms, they co-inhabit and co-create a field where human actions reverberate outward, shaping the living systems we depend upon.