Research notes for project planning
What the project record tells us
2022 collaborative garden
An ecosystem that makes care consequential
Charismatic Metafauna, created with Majorelle Arts, comprises nineteen sculptures in Davidson’s 2022 account. Steel, canvas, wood, light, fire and sound form endangered creatures approaching an extinction portal. Sensors and cameras translate visitor behavior into changes in their apparent health; distance and music can help restore them. The work makes collective care part of participation. How would a host explain those relationships so visitors can discover the rules while understanding their effect on other people’s encounters?
Gray Davidson — Metafauna ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefHow would a host explain the relationships between visitor behavior and the shared experience?
Big Art Partners planning prompt 2017 collaboration with Misha Naiman and Majorelle Arts
A tree assembled from patina and glass
Methuselah v2.0 is Davidson’s twenty-foot-tall sculptural interpretation of an ancient bristlecone pine in California’s White Mountains. His portfolio credits the project to a partnership with Misha Naiman and Majorelle Arts and lists 2017 as its year. Patinated steel sheet, curling metal rods and stained glass build a bark-like surface around themes of ancestry and deep time. A planning discussion can begin with this material layering: from which distances and directions should viewers perceive the tree’s outline, surface detail and transmitted light?
Gray Davidson — Methuselah v2.0 ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefFrom which distances and directions should viewers perceive outline, surface detail and light?
Big Art Partners planning prompt First presented at Unscruz, May 2024
Walking among suspended moments
A Stillness of Rain was first presented at the May 2024 Unscruz art event in a group exhibition of large multimedia sculptures. Davidson describes a fourteen-foot steel form between tree and architecture, with hanging elements that suggest both arrested raindrops and emerging awareness. Steel, patina, glass and paraffin support that imagery, and walking among the elements reveals the complete composition. For a similar environment, how should the route accommodate close looking while maintaining a clear understanding of the suspended elements and their fire components?
Gray Davidson — A Stillness of Rain ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefHow should circulation support close looking around suspended elements and fire components?
Big Art Partners planning prompt 
