His works are site-specific installations that juxtapose "the built and the unbuilt world" and explore how natural and human-made ecologies can come into closer dialog and inform one another.

[5] People could stake out pieces of blue fabric showing where the sea level was anticipated to be in the year 2080, the project had participants from four continents who created 90 works across 27 different countries and states.

[12][13] Kuby has made use of surplus human-made materials placed in natural settings, such as Breaker which makes use of sandstone from a demolished local high school in Aberdeen, Washington, rebuilt into an ocean wave shape.

"[10] Kuby explores transformation and disfiguration, how objects can be reshaped, reconstituted, or re-seen through their interactions with visible and invisible forces, and with time.

[23][24][25] As part of his Rome Prize work, he participated in a cooperative performance and installation called Material Narratives, in which he and conservator Anna Serotta, and writers Liz Moore and Krys Lee, "explored the interpretation of fragmentary material culture.