JAKE ROSENBERGCreative director · experiential designer · producer
Wildflower Center Commissions project documentationPublic art + experience · 2025–26
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Completed repeat commissions

Fortlandia + Luminations

Two commissions at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Fort Flutter for Fortlandia and illuminated botanical sculptures for Luminations.

Years
2025–26
Venue
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center · Austin, Texas
Jake’s role
Design and delivery through ALT
Repeat clientTwo distinct projects at one living landscape
Day → nightPublic sculpture and an illuminated botanical trail
World-building idea

One is a character you can enter. The other is a garden path transformed after dark. Together, Fort Flutter and the Luminations flower series show a repeat collaboration moving confidently between storytelling, architecture, landscape, lighting, and fabrication.

01Fort Flutter · Fortlandia

A character becomes an inhabitable landmark.

Fort Flutter translates a playful creature into architecture. Its face, ramp, seating, and wing-like canopy create a memorable public landmark while solving for circulation, shade, transport, installation, and repeated use.

02Luminations · winter art show

Texas flora becomes a glowing nighttime trail.

For Luminations, familiar botanical silhouettes become oversized illuminated waypoints—graphic and sculptural by day, vivid after dark, and carefully integrated into the garden path.

03Repeat collaboration

Each generation strengthens the physical system.

Across both commissions, color, surface, edge sealing, base stability, transport, and installation were refined into a more durable and serviceable system.

01 · Fort Flutter · Fortlandia

From creature sketch to inhabitable public world.

Completed Fort Flutter installation seen from the side at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
The finished fort turns a 14-foot wing span into shade, seating, circulation, and a public landmark.
Liza Fishbone and Jake Rosenberg sitting inside the completed Fort Flutter installation
The completed Fort Flutter with creators Liza Fishbone and Jake Rosenberg.
Annotated Fort Flutter wing plan showing the ramp entrance, plank floor, seating wings, and structural supports
Annotated studies connected the character silhouette to circulation, seating, span, and structural support.
Fort Flutter's complete primed shell assembled at full scale in the fabrication shop
The full-scale primed shell reveals the structural translation from character illustration to inhabitable environment.
Sunlight glowing through the green, yellow, orange, and pink acrylic details in Fort Flutter's finished wing canopy
Translucent acrylic details animate the wing canopy with shifting daylight and color.
Completed Fort Flutter interior with character murals, delivery badges, portals, and a Texas pollen-route map
The finished interior combines portals, benches, maps, characters, route badges, and a complete fictional pollen-delivery world.
02 · Luminations · winter art show

The garden changes after dark.

A path through the Wildflower Center garden lined with glowing flower sculptures at dusk
Across the garden, each illuminated silhouette becomes a waypoint along the path.
Five full-scale illuminated Texas flower sculptures lined up outdoors at night
The complete botanical family assembled outdoors at full scale, with each species retaining a distinct silhouette and color identity.
Four full-scale illuminated botanical sculptures glowing together during a studio light test
A full-system studio test brought the sculpture family together before installation to check color, edge illumination, stability, and serviceable bases.
Fluorescent lime sunflower sculpture installed in the Wildflower Center landscape during the day
Daylight reveals the fluorescent acrylic, routed linework, and serviceable base before illumination.
Illuminated bluebonnet sculpture glowing white against the garden at dusk
The Texas bluebonnet compresses layered petals into a glowing, legible silhouette.
Saturated red illuminated flower sculpture surrounded by ornamental grasses at night
At close range, routed acrylic and LED edging turn the flower into a saturated field of color.
Orange illuminated sunflower sculpture glowing among tall garden plants at dusk
The sunflower reads as both a daytime object and a warm nocturnal beacon.
Project record
  • Fort Flutter by Liza Fishbone and Jake Rosenberg
What this proves

Jake can earn repeat commissioners by turning memorable concepts into increasingly durable, serviceable physical systems.

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