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I am an artist and solarpunk engineer working between technology, speculative design, and field research.
A lifetime of rescuing litter has given me an abundance of materials, inspiring an improvisational art practice that is also an archaeological and spiritual study of modern waste.
With a background in journalism, and cultural/community organizing, I approach each project as a rehearsal for regenerative and mythic ways of living.
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✣ Research & Areas of Focus ✻

City Building +  Feeling
Mirrors as Technology
  • Sunlight Infrastructure
  • Heliostats and Reflective Sculptures
  • The Albedo Principle
  • Solar Radiation Management 
Environmental Intervention, Ritual
Litter
  • Local and Global Waste Distribution
  • Belongings, Belonging (Future of Ownership)
  • Archaeology of our Modern Lives

Futurism
Solar (Photovoltaic) Power
  • Solar-Powered Art and Culture
  • Solarpunk Living
  • Biophilic Design




❦ Selected Works  ❧


Solarpunk Day 2025




Solar-Powered lamp___ Battery-powered solar panel, window screen, taillight, wire form , Mercedes Insignia


I facilitated a two-hour workshop on solar circuits / solarpunk imagination for forty+ middle school students at the Woodrow Wilson International School in Tirana, Albania. 


Plein Air Marseille 2025


Market Ground Postcards from Israel Sword of Solarpunk

These pieces were produced in Marseille and donated to La Kouzina de Noailles to support their Pro-Palestinian efforts.  


Lana River 2025









Rot Infinity is a sculptural trilogy installed along a hillside in Nea Styra during the LOOP-PROSPER residency in Greece. The title comes from the Albanian word for wheel – rrota, rrotë. I staged a physical journey through the landscape. The installation unfolds as a guided procession downhill.




At New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), I developed a Heliostat, or robotic mirror programmed to follow the sun's path and reflect its light into my apartment. This work cultivated a serious inquiry into reflection as both optical and social metaphor, and daylight as a collective resource. Constructing it required fabricating with salvaged steel and automotive parts using drills, Dremels, taps, grinders, and other precision and power tools. That project demanded patience, careful measurement, and respect for load-bearing structure and electrical systems.


Mischief Lamp 2024



Found iron flower, wire baskets, crochet-metal bracelet, LEDs, Rechargeable battery



Robot Fashion Show 2024




I was commissioned to imagine what a post-gender robot-mechanic might look like, on top of a Roomba, for the world’s first Robot Fashion show. The catwalk was presented at the Clive Davis Institute at New York University in May 2024.


Miami 2021


Framed photo found in Lemon City. "First Appearance of the Bride"

A veiled photo of the Bride leaving home on the big day. Her quizzical expression is magnified, and the scene is strapped in mesh, bread clips, a rosary, as a smiling skeleton dangles, seeming to link arms with the bride.  


Statue of Le Betty 2018



 Betty Boop is a transnational icon. In NYC, she can be seen repping the flag of every nation as a person of every color. Here, I have reimagined her as the Statue of Liberty.



In 2018, I organized a residency for five NYC-artists (myself included) in Saranda, Albania – a seaside town where my family has roots.




I worked with Newest York to commision short films and sculptural experiments in moviemaking for a film festival in the Lower East side. I contributed two sculptural pieces and presented the projected works. Click here to see the full program. 


Apocalypse as a Rite of Passage