Time and Space
Boston, MA — Art
A ground floor retail space called for window coverage, and the concept evolved into something bigger. What emerged was an art piece wrapping the base of the building, layering depth and movement across an otherwise flat facade.
Sitting in bright contrast to the structure above, the work feels less like decoration and more like disruption. Bold forms and shifting color do what good public art should, making a familiar place feel suddenly new and turning a simple entry point into something worth stopping for.
Molecular Derivation
With the building's tenants rooted in the life sciences, the artwork needed to speak to that world in some way. Not literally, but through abstraction, finding a visual language that felt connected without being on the nose. The goal was something that a scientist might recognize intuitively, even without being able to name exactly why.
Electrophoresis became the anchor. The process by which DNA molecules are separated and analyzed by weight, pulled by an electrical current through a gel, with smaller fragments migrating faster and traveling further. It was the right kind of metaphor, scientific in origin but deeply visual in nature, a system built on movement, separation, and pattern.
Grid as System
The building's existing facade grid, rather than being a limitation, became a tool. Each individual pane offered a way for elements to relate to one another, acting as a filter for geometry the same way a gel filters molecular fragments by size. The structure of the building and the logic of the concept ended up speaking the same language.
From there, the composition took shape across the facade. Geometry shifts and migrates as it moves around the building, growing smaller and more scattered as it travels, while a gradating background color pulses beneath it all, standing in for the electrical charge that drives the whole system. The result is a facade that feels alive, like something mid process rather than finished.