As sea levels continue to rise, human buildings will soon be underwater. For this reason, it is important to consider the needs and desires of marine life in our construction decisions. Fish are the future occupants of our houses. As Close As We Get is a series of sculptures that function as art for humans and as potential homes for fish. Because ocean biodiversity thrives around structures with an abundance of surface area, the modular building blocks of As Close As We Get are designed to feature many flat, irregularly-sized planes. Each sculpture consists of multiple stacked building blocks, forming artworks that can be transformed into underwater infrastructure.

The materials are differently colored, to appeal to different marine creatures. Many of the As Close As We Get sculptures utilize pink concrete, which is particularly attractive to coral polyps. A new series also includes black concrete blocks, suggestive of the lava rocks that might have formed the very earliest reefs: these works point back to an almost unimaginatively distant time—the speculative beginnings of life on earth—while simultaneously offering a futuristic vision of architecture for fish.