§Selected Works

Selected Works.

A cross-disciplinary practice where land, water, and culture are one medium — from monumental water works to native ground, writing, and sound.

Aerial of the 28-foot cast-concrete Lotus and its bioswale rings, built by Dorian Dégagé in San Antonio
The 28-foot concrete Lotus, from above.DÉGAGÉ · selected work

Statement

Taught how to think, not what.

My education has been ambient — the finer influences that teach you not what to think but how. I came up through sound: avant-garde music, record deals, records cut in the award-winning rooms — then a turn from that polish, back toward the communal, local scene. A first language, for a feeling I couldn't yet name.

The ecological work is where that feeling found its form. Land, water, and culture as one medium — resource intelligence, infrastructure that gives something back. The sound never stopped; the land just gave the argument a second front, now set into the ground to last. Visibility was never the point — the point is to become the ground everything else stands on.

The premise behind all of it →

Dorian Dégagé (Dorian Degage) — surveying a curbside bioswale planting install with coffee in hand, San Antonio, Texas
In the field on a planting install — where the catalogue actually gets made.

Selected works

The catalogue.

Living water at a supportive senior community
A Supportive Senior CommunityLiving water · biochar + native habitatThe story →
A curbside bioswale moving stormwater
Alamo Heights BioswalesDrainage rebuilt as habitatThe story →
Bent-birch petal formwork for the concrete Lotus
The Lotus, in FormworkBent birch · by handThe story →
A cast mineral vessel
Cast VesselMineral · cast by hand
Carving stone by hand
Carved by HandStone
On site during a build
Built by HandOn site
A native and edible planting bed
Native GroundEdible landscape
Preserves and dried chiles from the practice
The Pantry Out BackTotal organic living

Also in the practice

Sound, image, and text.

Lineage

One impulse, many rooms.

From sound to land, the work has always chased the same thing — making a place, or a moment, give something back. Today it runs through Noon Systems Corporation, a Texas public-benefit corporation, and The Noon Source, an open library on water, land, and culture.

A full record — recordings, events, projects, and writing — accompanies the catalogue on request.

See the work in order, on the timeline →

Catalogue & Inquiry

The full catalogue is available on request.

For exhibitions, commissions, collaborations, acquisitions, or press — and to receive the complete catalogue with full documentation.