Adam Kuby's artworks are collaborations with the built and natural world that aim to foster a sense of connection to our increasingly fractured environment, provide an opportunity to explore how human activity and natural systems can better coexist, and how the symbolic power of art can help shift environmental and cultural perspectives. Using the body as a metaphor for the entire city of Portland, Kuby's Portland Acupuncture Project identified places in the landscape that are important to the City of Portland as a community, drawing attention not only to the significance of each focal point but also to the inter-connectedness of each of them relative to each other, as well as to the City's population as a whole.

The project explored the interface between art, regional planning, traditional Chinese medicine, and the health of the City of Portland. Giant acupuncture needles appeared across the city in ten different locations and brought attention to some of the city's most challenging problems, greatest assets, as well as places with enormous potential. From April to October 2010, needles moved from site to site in a roving citywide installation. The project coincided with a series of public workshops to help steer the Portland Plan, a guide for the city's growth over the next 25 years. At each location, local community members were engaged in the installation and invited to speak at its dedication. Each "point" or location had a dual name that related both to the site and to a more traditional acupuncture meridian. For example, one point was titled "Pending Promises," referring to the infrastructure improvements like sidewalks and crosswalks that the neighborhood has been waiting on for quite some time.