The Hylozoic Ground is an installation piece that depicts a forest, made of acrylic fronds, that appear to breathe when they move. It is covered in sensors that responds to the environment, using filtered moisture and particles, allowing it to do such a movement. The idea behind this piece was to show how, in a futuristic tense, buildings and cities will be built but made to seem as though they were living themselves. I like how the “forest” comes up from the ground to essentially spread through the air, connecting to each other in a web-like film. It makes it appear as if you’ve been somehow transported to the future itself and get a glimpse of how life would be like. What I don’t like about this piece are the stands on the ground. To me they don’t fit in with the foresty theme and appear to be more like a christmas display. If there was a way to make the stands apear more natural, like tree trunks, it would be better for me. Other than that, I really like this piece.

The Palatine Burial Installation is a filigree basically made of stainless steel wire elements that are interlinking. It’s held within vaults of a giant masonry that’s in the American Academy in Rome. Each barbed link is supposed to make the mase of wire behave like a swarm. I like how the piece looks dangerous and untouchable, very similar to barbed wire on a fence, and yet it draws you in like it’s a deep abyss. What I dislike about it is that it looks as though he just heeped a bunch of wire on top of each other with no real form, just one big mass. It would’ve been nice if he had a particular shape in mind when actually putting this together so it could actually look like something. Otherwise, this is a very nice piece.