I am a strategic designer and artist with a background in architecture and the performing arts. My work is deeply invested in material and process, using physical manipulations to discover form, space, and structure. I try to establish a conversational relationship with the material, or the problem at hand, by assuming a state of pointed listening. As in any conversation, curious attention is revelatory and thereby creative.

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I see more value in the surprising paths of ideas in exchange than in pure concepts. Indeed, much of my work is helping others to realize their ideas, to find words, techniques, and systems that bring out something greater than anticipated. In assistance, collaboration, or in pursuit of my own discoveries, I seek the fulcrum of conversation. 

 

Just to see what happens, I am often prying at the limits of certainty, sometimes deliberately mishandling a material or tool. It is bodily engaged discovery and I hope a physical sense of curiosity extends to the audience. Regardless of technical and intellectual rigors, the outcome of my work should be direct, palpable. I aim to evoke a childlike openness because our adult abandonment of

wonder is not evidence of exhausted possibilities, only settled expectations. 

 

I believe that public artwork should be concerned with nurturing a conversational relationship with reality. For The Real is an endless unfolding that exceeds perspective. To me, the best conversations approach this sense of reality through an act of reciprocal curiosity. I dream of a society devoted to the continual unveiling of reality and see that art and science are of one heart in this.

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When the design of our environment stirs curiosity, it invites us to be more curious about ourselves and what else may be possible. This is why I think art matters; not because it is challenging, or critical, but because it can be an invitation to ever expanding possibility.

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With my wife and two children, I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, the ancestral land of many peoples and a city in the throes of adolescence, awkward, charming, and full of unrealised potential. 

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I am always on the lookout for new collaborations. Please get in touch to tell me about your project: 

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