This project was inspired by the Morphic Forms and Bronzes exhibition at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, September 2012. The collectors who commissioned the piece inquired about purchasing the gallery installation for their garden in a beautiful Philadelphia neighborhood. The problem was, the piece was constructed of wood. There were also concerns that the roughly six-inch grid of wood would read too much as lattice in a garden environment. A proposal was made for a two wall section of the installation to be designed with a grid of twenty inches, made of extruded aluminum square tubing, painted with industrial catalyzed acrylic paints and fastened together with painted stainless steel domed rivets. Several models were created with the final choice including diagonal bracing to reinforce the design and to extend the physicality of the piece. The site had been recently cleared of previous vegetation and the ground leveled. The structure was fastened to nine aluminum posts secured into poured concrete footing.
The piece was installed in the fall of 2012. In the spring of 2013, the collectors engaged Dorene Reggiani of Asarum Designs to landscape the site with beautiful plantings and a terracotta path approaching and entering the sculptural environment. The collectors enjoy the garden gallery both in the morning and in the evening with the space functioning much as an extension of the living room which looks out over the installation.
In the fall of 2013, the couple commissioned Banded Santo for the niche above the stairs that lead from their living space down to the gardens. The sculpture, constructed of welded aluminum plate, was painted with the same paints used in the garden installation. Banded Santo twists and turns out of the niche to keep an eye on the garden habitat connecting the architecture of the home to that of the garden sculpture.