NESTED SCALES OF EXISTENCE
Paseo Project 2025 Proposal
PROJECT STATEMENT
Nested Scales of Existence uses layered projections on glass, merging Taos portrait photography with brain mapping imagery and James Webb telescope photographs, creating installations that explore neural networks and cosmic structures.
By inviting participants to interact with these translucent surfaces, the work transforms into a meditation on our place within these interconnected scales, creating a space where individual identity and cosmic architecture collapse into Shared Thresholds.
For Paseo 2025 we will be working with a small group of parents with 3rd grade children attending Arroyos Del Norte in Des Montes, including my own eight year old. This project will continue a program we have been participating in since 2023 with this same group, The Northwest Earth & Space Sciences Pathway, exploring the science of space.
We propose 3 light tables, like the images included, live-projecting a multi-channel microscope, camera, and telescope images of plants, faces and stars in real time, mirroring these images as part of connected patterns of the universe with audience participation.
Our team includes myself, Alejandra Gomez, The Arroyos Del Norte elementary school art teacher, Bryan Chaves, a mechanical engineer and member of the Taos astronomy club, and Karon Klipple, a mathematics instructor at UNM Taos, and our children ages 8-10.
Nested Scales Light Table, People of Taos Live Portraints and Galaxy Projector, 3 channels
Nested Scales Light Table, spray painted glass table for projections, 30x48x18″, 2025 (photo taken from below)
Nested Scales Light Table, audience participation
Audience participation touching the faces of Taos, images of James Webb constellations and Google Brain Mapping
Light Table Live Projected Taos Portraits
Galaxy Projector Light Show
Arroyos Del Norte Elementary School Team
This is our team in Flagstaff, AZ presenting our Space Travel project at the Artemis Roads Stem Project in 2024. The project included a rocket competition, coding for a lego Mars Rover, team challenges and documentation.
