Lina Puerta's hybrid anatomical - biological multi-media sculptures explore the physical connections between the human body and nature, and Sylvia Schwartz's site - specific
installation Field of Grass represents the artist's attempt to create a sense of grounded space for herself in response to her family history of displacement.
The remaining projects, all loans, include Yvonne Domengue's red painted steel sculpture Wind Waves (2009), which starting in January will spend a year on a park island east
of the Sam Houston sculpture; Orly Genger's football -
field - length painted rope sculpture Boys Cry Too (2009), which will lay directly on the
grass at Brays Bayou Shore for a year starting in March; and MicroPavilion: ReFRAME x FRAME, which is billed as «a motion - triggered sound
installation based on environmental data» by the University
of Houston Graduate Design / BUILD Studio.