Topher Delaney’s 35-year career as an environmental artist and builder has encompassed a wide breadth of projects that focus on the exploration of seminal interpretations of landscape architecture, site installation and public art. Her practice, SEAM Studio, is an atelier which serves as a venue for the investigation of cultural, social, and artistic narratives “seamed” together to form a dynamic physical installation. Rather than subscribing to typological categorization, Delaney’s installations place an emphasis on the integration of both physical form and cultural narrative which references the currency of a site’s unique historical, cultural, physical, and environmental profiles. The text of the terrain is evidenced in the structure of these narratives, crafted by technical skill and quality of materials to create a site that will be read and be interpreted by the general public.

Current works in progress include a series of installations/gardens which focus on illumination through embedded lines of fire endlessly reflected by mirrored boundaries. Public Art installations for Charlotte, North Carolina’s welfare department focused on stripping asphalt and arboriculture and Bronx New York housing for the indigent aged community focused on table gardens.

Artist’s Statement
"The Rolling Mariner, a fulcrum between the body and the earth, challenges our notion of a presumed stationary relationship. The form and function of this sculpture engages the participant in the dynamic concept of sitting in motion."