First conversation
A calm opening call to get comfortable, identify the threads, and understand whose story or space is being honored.
Structures for Legacy
Built in metal, memory and experience.
PhiWorks creates physical and recorded forms of legacy — sculptures and conversations designed to carry meaning across generations.
Low-pressure first conversation. Choose legacy recording, metal sculpture, or simply describe what you are carrying.
What PhiWorks preserves
Legacy recordings for families preserving elder stories
Custom metal altars and intimate memorial commissions
Community-scale field work rooted in shared presence
Hand fabrication using reclaimed steel and industrial materials
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Legacy recordings that keep a voice in the family.
A professionally guided recording series can capture an elder’s stories, turning points, values, and ordinary details before they disappear into memory. The final keepsake can include edited audio and a transcript that belongs to the family forever.
Going deeper
Guided questions, turning points, hard-won wisdom, and the details that give a legacy its shape.
The full picture
Values, rituals, materials, voice, place, and the meaning that needs to be carried forward.
Delivered for keeping
Edited audio, transcript, or a hand-built object made to be held, revisited, and passed on.
Listen first
A legacy recording example: Malcolm.
For visitors who need to understand the feeling of a PhiWorks recording before reaching out, this sample gives the page a concrete reference point: a voice, a pace, and a sense of care.
Reclaimed steel / sacred form
Metal sculptures and altars built for memory, place, and ritual.
PhiWorks designs and fabricates custom metal altars and sculptures — from intimate commissions to large-scale community builds. Each work begins with a conversation, then moves through material selection, sketching, fabrication, and installation planning.
Reclaimed steelIndustrial materialsHand fabricationMemorial and community work
Phi’s workHand-built metal frame with reclaimed wood and sign lettering.
Field Work
Long-form projects that move beyond the studio.
Field Work documents multidimensional immersive projects that explore creating on a massive scale. These works unfold over time and extend into shared environments and communities.
Beyondword
A community-based holiday that emerged from loss and the need for a shared space to process it, officially declared in Lyons, Colorado.
The Wayfinding EYE
An emerging Park City, Utah project centered on community, sculpture, and a charged landscape.
Decorative site graphic only — used as a visual bridge between metal, memory, and wayfinding.
In the studio
Actual process footage, not placeholder atmosphere.
These clips show the shop reality behind the work: sparks, fitting, torch detail, and the hands-on fabrication that turns salvaged metal into sacred geometry. Each card uses a lightweight animated preview that starts moving like a GIF, and the full clean MP4 opens when visitors click “Watch full clip.”
Watch full clipSparks at the bench
Grinding and shaping in Phi’s shop.
Watch full clipHand fitting
Small decisions made by hand before the piece moves forward.
Watch full clipShop assembly
Torch work, reclaimed material, and the studio environment.
Watch full clipTorch detail
Close welding detail on decorative metal form.
Process / Studio
Each work begins with a conversation. Materials are selected, forms are developed, and fabrication is done by hand in the studio. Timelines vary depending on scale and complexity.
Listen
Understand the story, person, place, or ceremony that needs a form.
Shape
Turn the emotional center into recording prompts, sketches, materials, and structure.
Build
Record, edit, fabricate, assemble, and prepare the piece for keeping or installation.