While at MacDowell, Topiary continued work on "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a media-performance piece. She also completed a short video titled "Gum and Tea," which would premiere at the MIX/NY festival in 2005.
"Topiary’s work crosses genres of documentary, experimental media, performance and essay film. Her work has been presented in film festivals, theaters, art galleries and museums through the US and internationally. She is currently the 2018-2020 Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Oakland Museum and a member of the Creative Cities Working Group at Stanford University. Topiary has received grants and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Experimental Television Center, Radar’s Writer’s Lab, and Mount Tremper Arts. She taught film editing at the School for Visual Arts in New York City as well as video production and post-production at CUNY’s College of Staten Island, Pratt Institute and the Media Studies program at New School University in New York before moving back to California to begin her PhD."
