Structures of
Consequence
Field Conditions 01.2026
The work examines convolutions between material systems, environmental forces, and human intervention. What folds into process, regulation, and history becomes visible in this engagement. Agency becomes legible in sculpture, product and spatial design, and moving image—often via infiltration rather than invitation.
LUCARNE transforms observation into disruption, from the grit of industrial sediment to complex landscapes across the US and Europe. Parallel practice includes mission-critical systems in defense and healthcare, developed by means of product design and prototyping. In the built environment, this approach extends into SUGARCUBE, a twenty-year installation in Old City Philadelphia, collapsing the separation between functioning retail and continuous artwork.
Rooted in the same conceptual foundation, cinematography develops from long-term collaborations with choreographers and performance organizations. Single-camera operations prioritize temporal fluidity—capturing through-lines of movement, sound, and intent as they evolve.
Recognition and support include the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and partner organizations across Europe and the United States.
STRATIFICATION / SEDIMENT / STRUCTURE — erosion patterns in the Delaware basin · glacial moraine · Vistula floodplain · industrial runoff — molecular cohesion → structural fatigue → adaptation— thermal expansion, rust bloom, carbon residue · documentation as evidence / camera as instrument · reflective index of light through particulate air · sound as vibration through built material · excavation, preservation, entropy of form — oak preserved in anaerobic silt (ca. 1255) — trace elements in bone-fired brick · metallurgy · oxidation · fracture — field study in material behavior / geometry under weather · archival residue / pigment migration · perception · probability · persistence — entropy measured in corrosion, equilibrium in decay — site as system / system as record — light scatter · tonal resonance · signal loss — documentation remains empirical not interpretive — LUCARNE AS LENS / ARTICULATION OF EVIDENCE
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