Thinking Globally in Human Scale

This installation fills the two-story open space with thousands of sparkling transparent glass beads. Among them, a cluster of tinted blue beads forms a six-foot sphere representing the globe. From one vantage point, the outline of a human figure emerges as negative space, passing through both the clear, sparkling atmosphere and the floating globe—a reflection on the long history of humankind inhabiting the Earth.

Commissioned for a building housing the departments of Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology, the sculpture conceptually bridges these diverse disciplines. The design responds to the challenge of uniting multiple fields of study in a single, cohesive visual language, exploring the intersection of human experience and global perspective.