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Art installation and works currently available by X, a Koasati Environmental Designer, Artist and Technologist. The following projects range from commission concepts to existing work that can be customized to fit the needs of Casino Coushatta. The emphasis in these works is the connection between our ancestral origins and our future, activated by our presence.
FROM MEMORY (WORKING TITLE)
2026
Interactive Light Installation // New Commission
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Interactive light installation featuring individually addressable leds and ancestral Koasati patterns that illuminate and change colors (tribal colors) through passing movement. Custom hardware and software designed by artist. Sound elements possible.
Ancestral «» Futures
Below are examples of pre-existing interactive works by X that can be customized and updated to tell our story.
Imagine an interactive living digital archive of every basket ever made by Coushatta members, all 3D scanned and painted in topographical colors. Tribal member names shown below each creation. This example is permanently installed in The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois in The Native Exhibit Hall. Featuring 3D scans from the museum collection.
Imagine Koasati words illuminating the moving silhouette of children walking through a corridor on their way to kids quest, or a grandparent en route to seven clans. The interaction then speaking the words in an ambient sonic texture, echoing the voices of Coushatta elders. Words of welcome, words of hope, words of luck. This example was created for The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois and features the voice of Virginia Langley Benavente (Turkey Clan) speaking in Koasati.
VOID_QUILT
2025
Available / Commission-Ready
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Collaboration with Tina Benavente (Koasati)
Four quilts currently available in varying dimensions. Custom tribal colors available for commission.
See the available quilts in the virtual gallery below.
CHEE-KAH-NO (Interactive)
2022
Available / Customization-Ready
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Interactive installation incorporating sound and illuminated text. This can be updated and customized.
TRANSMISSIONS (Interactive)
2022
Available / Commission-Ready
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Customizable interactive holograms featuring rotating 3D scans, and contextual touchscreen text box.
VOID_QUILT_ITERATIONS
2025
Available / Commission-Ready
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Collaboration with Tina Benavente (Koasati)
Four quilts currently available in varying dimensions. Custom tribal colors available for commission.
See the available quilts in the virtual gallery below.
VOID_STRATA (Animated Color Shift)
2026
Available / Commission-Ready
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The original digital video work that inspired the VOID_COLLECTION was called VOID_STRATA and was acquired in 2024. I am proposing an updated version in tribal colors. The work is a color shifting video work that would fit well on the facade of the new tower.
A virtual representation of the original work acquired by the TIA COLLECTION is available for viewing in the virtual gallery below:
VOID_SIX_STORY_QUILT
2025
Collaboration with Tina Benavente (Koasati)
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Available for acquisition.
X, in collaboration with artist's mother Tina Benavente (Koasati) 2025. Cotton. 720 in × 36 in | 1828 x 91 cm