Artist Assistants: Ryan Patrick Martin, Eric Simmons, Janelle Iglesias, Noël Morical, Joey Watson, Joseph Vidich
Chiaozza Garden is a large-scale immersive installation created for the 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Over two weekends, hundreds of thousands of visitors ambled through the acre-spanning stucco sculpture garden. The bulbous geologic shapes recall the shifting views around each bend of a boulder field, and the wash of pastel and high-key fluorescent colors connect with the dusty dusk glow of the surrounding desert. Like a mirage or a superbloom, the 32 ten- to forty-foot-tall sprouting sculptures create a fleeting hallucination that encourages an appreciation of the present moment and carves out a space to explore, gather, rest, or look around and engage friends, strangers, and the world around us.
