Alumni Hall, NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, NY

1436 powder coated stainless steel spheres, 1102 stainless steel cables, custom hardware
12’ 7″ W x 38’ 9″ L x 12’ 2” H

Collection: NYU Langone Public Art Program
Program Curator: Katherine Meehan
Architect: Ennead
Installation: Chris Powers, KC Fabrications

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a flux of events; we are processes – Carlo Rovelli

Commissioned for the newly renovated Alumni Hall at NYU Langone Medical Center, CHRYSALIS is inspired by the interdisciplinary context of Complexity Theory. The sculpture harnesses a self-contained formation to emphasize the temporality of complex, adaptive biological systems in a gesture of relational moments. Dynamic systems under constant change, complex adaptive systems exist in a process of perpetual unfolding, offering a vision of emergence and adaptation within relational feedback loops.

Taking Complexity Theory into the sculpture’s digital modeling, the piece premiers a new studio-developed algorithm. Augmenting this algorithmic process with a hand-based approach, every point in space is then digitally sculpted by the artist before its final physical manifestation.

CHRYSALIS embodies a space of ‘becoming’, where the process of developing unfolds over time, connecting a place of healing and science to our celestial and molecular selves.