Installation-Public Spaces

Installation Public Spaces

Jyoti’s outdoor installations reflect his close affinity to the world of nature and politics. In Kathmandu, he created ecological artworks that revitalize both human communities and their relationship to the environment. Value: Measuring the Cost of Violence (2001), regarded as an influential milestone of installation art in Nepal, was a memorial to lives lost in conflict in his native country and around the world.

In the US, Jyoti’s intimately-scaled projects accentuate the beauty of overlooked landscape features – a sea of parched earth, tangled roots, the charred remains of a hollowed tree trunk. By contrast, Jyoti strategically sited 33 carved wood sculptures in Joshua Tree National Park whose desert light animated their presence between boulders and cactus. His most recent series of installations, Melting Ice, was constructed in Kathmandu and at four museums in the US and Canada.

33 Sculptures 1984 – 1988
Myth of the Nagas and the Kathmandu Valley Watershed, Kathmandu, 1993
In Nature: Site Specific Installations, 1992 – 2008
Shantiko Samjhana – Remembering Peace, 2002 & 2003, Nepal
Value: Visualizing the Cost of Violence, Kathmandu, 2001
Webster Woods, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, WA , 2010
Stupa for Webster Woods, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, WA, 2011
Melting Ice Installations 2012 – 2018
Space Beacon, Big Rock Garden Park Bellingham, WA, 2013