BNS - Ball-Nogues Studio

05/17/2026

Progress in Fort Worth. We’re here for another week or two.

05/16/2026

Fabrication for the Calexico project.

The work was shaped through a combination of digitally controlled tube rolling and a changing landscape of custom jigs, guides, and supports built in the shop.

I remain a reluctant fabrication geek, but there is something beautiful about the way old problems keep returning: some of the oldest methods in fabrication for holding, aligning, spacing, correcting—remain essential even as new tools allow increasingly complex geometries to be produced.

Many of the structures shown here existed only temporarily, disappearing once the next relationship could hold itself.

05/06/2026

05/01/2026

Before this work exists as a painting, it exists as a system.

For Riverside Park in Fort Worth, the project begins with the existing pecan trees. Each tree becomes the center point for a radial field applied to the park’s concrete paths. The trees locate the drawing. Stencils carry the system across the ground.

The concept comes from something usually hidden from view: trees have a life below the surface. Roots, soil, fungi, water, and mineral exchange form a living world beneath our feet. The artwork does not illustrate that world literally. Instead, it makes its energy visible as color, pattern, and field.

Each tree-centered field uses three slightly offset stencil layers, producing moiré-like effects where the radial lines overlap. Across the park, a nine-color palette shifts from warmer compositions near the southeast side of the site toward cooler compositions near the Trinity River.

The result will be a time-based mural underfoot — a drawing generated by the grove, activated by walking, and completed through movement.

Commissioned by Fort Worth Public Art.