His artistic interests lie in large-format generative art; specifically art that is intended to be displayed at size and scale such that the viewer cannot take all the elements in at once. His intention is that the viewer will spend time with his work to take it all in, at different scales. His recent work and releases on Art Blocks include Glass and Calian. He has published dozens of articles in the leading physics journals, and has received numerous awards.

In his words: "As a theoretical physicist, I look for mechanisms. The themes of my work are self-organization and emergence, and my ambitious goal is a theory of general biology: biology as it could be anywhere in the universe. When does life emerge from inanimate matter?"