Category Archives: projects
Salt Lake Excerpt, UAE
“Salt Lake Excerpt”, an art installation by De St. Croix and Joanna Settle, explores environmental issues through recycled material. It began with a visit to the UAE salt lakes and flats and features plastic flakes from 50,000 recycled bottles to create a landscape resembling an Arctic terrain.
Salt Lake Excerpt, UAE
“Salt Lake Excerpt”, an art installation by De St. Croix and Joanna Settle, explores environmental issues through recycled material. It began with a visit to the UAE salt lakes and flats and features plastic flakes from 50,000 recycled bottles to create a landscape resembling an Arctic terrain.
High Peaks: Himachal (Snow Mountain)
The artist’s sculpture installation, “HIGH PEAKS: HIMACHAL (Snow Mountain)”, premiered at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. The artwork deliberates on the alarming rate of Himalayan glacier melt.
High Peaks: Himachal (Snow Mountain)
The artist’s sculpture installation, “HIGH PEAKS: HIMACHAL (Snow Mountain)”, premiered at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. The artwork deliberates on the alarming rate of Himalayan glacier melt.
Transcontinental Divide
“Transcontinental Divide (2020-2023)” is an art project made up of miniature landscape sculptures created from various materials. The artist’s inspiration stems from areas he has studied, with half of the works depicting locations from his time in the United Arab Emirates.
Transcontinental Divide
“Transcontinental Divide (2020-2023)” is an art project made up of miniature landscape sculptures created from various materials. The artist’s inspiration stems from areas he has studied, with half of the works depicting locations from his time in the United Arab Emirates.
The “Infinite Landscape” Series
The “Infinite Landscape” series, commissioned by The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, is a collection of glassed-in landscapes depicting four different UAE ecosystems. Each piece, made from recycled materials, uses mirror tricks to create an endless reflection, embodying the vastness of deserts.
The “Infinite Landscape” Series
The “Infinite Landscape” series, commissioned by The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, is a collection of glassed-in landscapes depicting four different UAE ecosystems. Each piece, made from recycled materials, uses mirror tricks to create an endless reflection, embodying the vastness of deserts.
Lava Bed (from the Kilauea series)
“LAVA BED (from the Kilauea series)” (2023) is a unique artwork inspired by the study of Hawaii’s active shield volcano, Kilauea. The artist, De St. Croix, with the help of master papermaker Lisa Switalski, used unconventional papermaking methods to create a textured effect, reflecting natural processes.
Lava Bed (from the Kilauea series)
“LAVA BED (from the Kilauea series)” (2023) is a unique artwork inspired by the study of Hawaii’s active shield volcano, Kilauea. The artist, De St. Croix, with the help of master papermaker Lisa Switalski, used unconventional papermaking methods to create a textured effect, reflecting natural processes.
Hollow Ground
In 2019, De St. Croix visited Utqiagvik, Alaska, to observe the dissolving permafrost as a result of climate change. Hollow Ground gives viewer a glimpse into the future. The top of the sculpture an austere icy plane while below we see gaping holes referencing the thawing soil.
Hollow Ground
In 2019, De St. Croix visited Utqiagvik, Alaska, to observe the dissolving permafrost as a result of climate change. Hollow Ground gives viewer a glimpse into the future. The top of the sculpture an austere icy plane while below we see gaping holes referencing the thawing soil.
Collapsing Pillar
Towering over the viewer – sections of icy tundra teeter uncertainly. The precarity of this work emphasizes the vulnerability of the Arctic landscape – a space both vast and under severe threat.
Collapsing Pillar
Towering over the viewer – sections of icy tundra teeter uncertainly. The precarity of this work emphasizes the vulnerability of the Arctic landscape – a space both vast and under severe threat.
Alchemist Triptych
Alchemist Triptych depicts three structures in gold, silver, and copper. The forms represent mineral mines extracted from the earth in tapering concentric rings, dangling and vulnerable.
Alchemist Triptych
Alchemist Triptych depicts three structures in gold, silver, and copper. The forms represent mineral mines extracted from the earth in tapering concentric rings, dangling and vulnerable.
Cold Front
Cold Front is made from made from 67,000 shredded 500ml plastic water bottles, creating the glimmering ice-like surface. Onto this façade a projected moving glacier engulfs the visitors’ visual field. An ecologically responsible sculpture – keeping plastic in circulation rather than in landfills.
Cold Front
Cold Front is made from made from 67,000 shredded 500ml plastic water bottles, creating the glimmering ice-like surface. Onto this façade a projected moving glacier engulfs the visitors’ visual field. An ecologically responsible sculpture – keeping plastic in circulation rather than in landfills.
Moving Landscape
A series of miniature landscapes on model railroad cars — depicting tundras, wetlands, forests, deserts, etc. The train cars revolve in a circular loop through the entry wall of the exhibition and into the gallery behind it. These landscapes are in perpetual motion.
Moving Landscape
A series of miniature landscapes on model railroad cars — depicting tundras, wetlands, forests, deserts, etc. The train cars revolve in a circular loop through the entry wall of the exhibition and into the gallery behind it. These landscapes are in perpetual motion.
Moving Landscape II
A series of miniature landscapes on flat-bed model railroad cars – imaging tundras; wetlands, forests, deserts, etc. Sixteen train cars revolve in a circular loop through the entry wall of the exhibition and into the gallery behind it. These landscapes are in perpetual motion.
Moving Landscape II
A series of miniature landscapes on flat-bed model railroad cars – imaging tundras; wetlands, forests, deserts, etc. Sixteen train cars revolve in a circular loop through the entry wall of the exhibition and into the gallery behind it. These landscapes are in perpetual motion.
How to Move a Landscape
Directed by Tony Gerber, this short film collages together footage of De St. Croix, Utqiagvik, various scientists research, and the devastating effect of climate change on this vulnerable landscape and the Inupiaq people.
How to Move a Landscape
Directed by Tony Gerber, this short film collages together footage of De St. Croix, Utqiagvik, various scientists research, and the devastating effect of climate change on this vulnerable landscape and the Inupiaq people.
Plein Air Arctic Permafrost Landscape
Plein Air Arctic Landscape I / II were sculpted along the Arctic Ocean. Permafrost provides preservation and structure in the Arctic and it has begun to thaw at an alarming rate due to climate change.
Plein Air Arctic Permafrost Landscape
Plein Air Arctic Landscape I / II were sculpted along the Arctic Ocean. Permafrost provides preservation and structure in the Arctic and it has begun to thaw at an alarming rate due to climate change.
Dark/Light Arctic Ice Float
Depicted is both the visible and underwater sides of a glacier; atop a shipping crate is a stark white berg while inside is the portion usually hidden beneath the water.
Dark/Light Arctic Ice Float
Depicted is both the visible and underwater sides of a glacier; atop a shipping crate is a stark white berg while inside is the portion usually hidden beneath the water.
Two Ends
Two Ends depicts the extreme ends of the United States/Mexico border, based on-site visits and first-hand photographic documentation. One border ends in a Texas salt-water estuary, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico while the other ends with the fence line descending into the Pacific Ocean in Tijuana.
Two Ends
Two Ends depicts the extreme ends of the United States/Mexico border, based on-site visits and first-hand photographic documentation. One border ends in a Texas salt-water estuary, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico while the other ends with the fence line descending into the Pacific Ocean in Tijuana.
High Peaks
The highest Himalayan mountains explore the ideas of the never-ending battle between humans and the environment. The language of landscape generally owned by the painting genre transcends here into a painting/sculpture hybrid.
High Peaks
The highest Himalayan mountains explore the ideas of the never-ending battle between humans and the environment. The language of landscape generally owned by the painting genre transcends here into a painting/sculpture hybrid.
Pyramiden/Permafrost
A two-sided sculpture inspired by the utopian settlement of Pyramiden, an abandoned soviet town and coal mining community in the Svalbard Archipelago.
Pyramiden/Permafrost
A two-sided sculpture inspired by the utopian settlement of Pyramiden, an abandoned soviet town and coal mining community in the Svalbard Archipelago.
Mountain Views
A large scale elevated sculpture that recreates a scenic vista of a monumental extinct mountain range, acting as a memorial to its own obliteration from out of state coal mining and mountain top removal.
Mountain Views
A large scale elevated sculpture that recreates a scenic vista of a monumental extinct mountain range, acting as a memorial to its own obliteration from out of state coal mining and mountain top removal.
Nomadic Landscape
A nomadic work of art, this miniaturized landscape travels in a custom container along the path of the prevailing Mongolian winds—much like the region’s soil deposited in north-central China as a result of the effects of global warming.
Nomadic Landscape
A nomadic work of art, this miniaturized landscape travels in a custom container along the path of the prevailing Mongolian winds—much like the region’s soil deposited in north-central China as a result of the effects of global warming.
Unnecessary Memorial: Palisade I & II
A project exploring the ecology, environment, and rescue of the Hudson Palisades. Sculpted entirely by hand, the work functions as an intimate, double-sided tableau.
Unnecessary Memorial: Palisade I & II
A project exploring the ecology, environment, and rescue of the Hudson Palisades. Sculpted entirely by hand, the work functions as an intimate, double-sided tableau.
Broken Landscape II
Referencing the historical genre of landscape painting, Broken Landscape II is a painstaking rendering of the land’s topography and its manufactured border.
Broken Landscape II
Referencing the historical genre of landscape painting, Broken Landscape II is a painstaking rendering of the land’s topography and its manufactured border.
Broken Landscape I
Over one hundred feet in length, Broken Landscape reconstructs a section of the Mexico/United States border as a monumental miniaturized model of the new fence and surrounding landscape.
Broken Landscape I
Over one hundred feet in length, Broken Landscape reconstructs a section of the Mexico/United States border as a monumental miniaturized model of the new fence and surrounding landscape.
End of the Fence Line
A miniature representation of the end of the federal fence line in Fort Hancock, TX. The sculpture is placed at eye level, forcing the viewer to look to the other side through the fence.
End of the Fence Line
A miniature representation of the end of the federal fence line in Fort Hancock, TX. The sculpture is placed at eye level, forcing the viewer to look to the other side through the fence.
UnNatural History I
A miniature world mounted inside an abandoned natural history museum, presenting landscapes that are simultaneously real and subliminal, beautiful and devastating, refined and abstracted.
UnNatural History I
A miniature world mounted inside an abandoned natural history museum, presenting landscapes that are simultaneously real and subliminal, beautiful and devastating, refined and abstracted.
UnNatural History II
This sculpture continues the exploration of duality, as embodied by landscape suspended in a liminal state between destruction and regeneration.
UnNatural History II
This sculpture continues the exploration of duality, as embodied by landscape suspended in a liminal state between destruction and regeneration.
Floating Fire
A floating, mirrored reconstruction of a fire-ravaged area in the Florida Everglades, investigating landscape as a site of conflict and instability.
Floating Fire
A floating, mirrored reconstruction of a fire-ravaged area in the Florida Everglades, investigating landscape as a site of conflict and instability.
Floating Fires
Focusing on the forest fire, this exhibit reflects upon the subliminal landscape imagery of the Florida Everglades and its relationship to encroachment, conservation and restoration.
Floating Fires
Focusing on the forest fire, this exhibit reflects upon the subliminal landscape imagery of the Florida Everglades and its relationship to encroachment, conservation and restoration.
Mountain Strip
A massive miniaturized section of a West Virginia strip coal mine, over forty feet in length and twenty-two feet in height, painstakingly rendering the topography and demise of a mountain.
Mountain Strip
A massive miniaturized section of a West Virginia strip coal mine, over forty feet in length and twenty-two feet in height, painstakingly rendering the topography and demise of a mountain.
Landscape Section: Border: U.S. / Mexico
A representation of the U.S. / Mexico border. Part of an ongoing series of miniaturized landscape sections reconstructing borders between countries in varying degrees of conflicts with each other.
Landscape Section: Border: U.S. / Mexico
A representation of the U.S. / Mexico border. Part of an ongoing series of miniaturized landscape sections reconstructing borders between countries in varying degrees of conflicts with each other.
Landscape Section: Border: U.S. / Canada
This sculpture depicts a peace park on the United States’ less contentious northern border—a sharp contrast to the more fortified southern border with Mexico.
Landscape Section: Border: U.S. / Canada
This sculpture depicts a peace park on the United States’ less contentious northern border—a sharp contrast to the more fortified southern border with Mexico.
Landscape Section: Border: Pakistan / Afghanistan (Tora Bora)
This sculpture draws upon documentation of the Pakistan / Afghanistan border landscape by the international press to recreate an area that continues to be central to the United States’ politics.
Landscape Section: Border: Pakistan / Afghanistan (Tora Bora)
This sculpture draws upon documentation of the Pakistan / Afghanistan border landscape by the international press to recreate an area that continues to be central to the United States’ politics.
Landscape Section: Border: North / South Korea
Based upon copious photo documentation of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, this sculpture depicts a wildlife sanctuary in one of the most dangerous border zones in the world.
Landscape Section: Border: North / South Korea
Based upon copious photo documentation of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, this sculpture depicts a wildlife sanctuary in one of the most dangerous border zones in the world.
Landscape Section: Marsh
Sculpture based upon research along Florida’s Interstate 95 and select proximate regions, where devastating wildfires destroyed tens of thousands of acres of everglades and wetlands.
Landscape Section: Marsh
Sculpture based upon research along Florida’s Interstate 95 and select proximate regions, where devastating wildfires destroyed tens of thousands of acres of everglades and wetlands.
Landscape Section: Swamp
Work in an ongoing series that presents a cross-section from nature as a still and subliminal image of a liminal environment, either being destroyed or in the process of healing.
Landscape Section: Swamp
Work in an ongoing series that presents a cross-section from nature as a still and subliminal image of a liminal environment, either being destroyed or in the process of healing.
Detainment Map
A site specific sculpture situated at a military fort in Key West, Detainment Map reflects upon the complex detainee issues surrounding the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.
Detainment Map
A site specific sculpture situated at a military fort in Key West, Detainment Map reflects upon the complex detainee issues surrounding the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.
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