The body of work

Works.

Living systems, built & measured.

The record of built works — Records 01–07 — land art, stormwater infrastructure, civic restoration, documented from the dirt up. Every record applies a published method and logs what the site taught back — the methods live in the Source.

Built by hand in San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country.

01 Live
Land Art

The Lotus

How a 28-foot flower gets cast in one pour — a form per petal, drawn by eye, and caliche holding it dead level. No precedent we could find.

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02 Live The Huerta courtyard garden — tiered fountain and stone terraces planted with natives.
Culinary Garden · Heritage

Huerta de Atrio

The most beautiful plant is the most useful one. A mission courtyard planted to prove it — 20+ Hill Country natives from the palette the missions proved first.

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03 Live A curbside bioswale catching street runoff in the rain.
Stormwater Infrastructure

The Curbside Bioswale

A 13-foot channel that takes the street flood — ~200 gallons an hour — and lets the caliche drink.

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04 Built Aerial view of the Dry-Creek Xeriscape — decomposed-granite paths and a river-rock dry creek around a metal-roof Hill Country home.
Private Commission · Xeriscape

Dry-Creek Xeriscape

A dry creek is drainage dressed as landscape — river rock that walks roof water away from the house and lets it soak where it lands.

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05 Built A finished stone-veneer foundation retrofit in warm Hill Country limestone against tan stucco.
Private Commission · Stonework

Foundation Retrofit

Stone is a wall’s weather layer — a limestone skirt takes the splash and sun that stucco can’t.

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06 Pro Bono A water feature at a senior-housing community.
Civic Restoration

A Supportive Senior Community

How three fountains stay clean on 100 watts: the water keeps moving, biochar and lime do the filtering, and the sun runs the loop. Built for formerly homeless seniors.

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07 Live A young hand feeding a goat at the 702 ecological field.
Ecological Training Center

702

How a dead campus comes back: count what still works, put hands on it, let goats take the brush. Four trained — veterans and youth. Two went on to green-industry jobs.

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Curators & commissions

Exhibitions, public art, and site-specific work.

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The Noon community gathered at dusk in a Hill Country garden, holding native plant starts and cuttings.
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The ground is held in common.

These are the hands — growers, makers, builders. Real skill, deep roots, the craft learned at home as much as taught. We keep it in the open: field days, plant exchanges, evenings that end with everyone holding something to plant. The heritage is the infrastructure.

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