monikaco on Nostr: The privilege to do what you do best—it’s a blessing. Every time I get the ...
The privilege to do what you do best—it’s a blessing.
Every time I get the opportunity to create a public artwork, I feel immense gratitude. These are not just projects—they are invitations to bring spaces to life, to tell a story through color, form, and presence.
Arcana is my latest work—an immersive glass and metal site intervention created for the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington in Seattle. It forms a dynamic, stage-like wraparound environment that embraces and shapes an ever-changing experience through light and perspective. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, it translates geometric abstraction into a structural language of engineering—integrating form, motion, and perception.
It’s a long process: from idea to inception, to fabrication, to installation. Nothing about it is fast or disposable. I work closely with fabricators, and our relationship is key—they must understand the essence of what I’m conveying, and I trust them to bring that vision into the world with precision and care.
These pieces are not for sale. They are site-specific, they belong to the places they inhabit. They carry a pulse, a frequency, they become part of the space—they activate it.
In a few days, I’ll be in Seattle installing Arcana, and I’m deeply grateful—to the commissioner who believed in this vision, to the fabricators who helped me bring it to life, and most of all, to the part of me that keeps showing up with courage.
Courage to believe in my talents.
Courage to keep doing what I know how to do best.
This is a celebration—of color, of life, of trusting the process. More images during the install -
Every time I get the opportunity to create a public artwork, I feel immense gratitude. These are not just projects—they are invitations to bring spaces to life, to tell a story through color, form, and presence.
Arcana is my latest work—an immersive glass and metal site intervention created for the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington in Seattle. It forms a dynamic, stage-like wraparound environment that embraces and shapes an ever-changing experience through light and perspective. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, it translates geometric abstraction into a structural language of engineering—integrating form, motion, and perception.
It’s a long process: from idea to inception, to fabrication, to installation. Nothing about it is fast or disposable. I work closely with fabricators, and our relationship is key—they must understand the essence of what I’m conveying, and I trust them to bring that vision into the world with precision and care.
These pieces are not for sale. They are site-specific, they belong to the places they inhabit. They carry a pulse, a frequency, they become part of the space—they activate it.
In a few days, I’ll be in Seattle installing Arcana, and I’m deeply grateful—to the commissioner who believed in this vision, to the fabricators who helped me bring it to life, and most of all, to the part of me that keeps showing up with courage.
Courage to believe in my talents.
Courage to keep doing what I know how to do best.
This is a celebration—of color, of life, of trusting the process. More images during the install -