About

My journey as an artist has been marked through deviation and excursion. 

The study of art has been an present from early days in university and before venturing into architecture, landscape, and ecology. It was the juncture of two events at mid-life, first in 1996 during a retreat for PhD students at the ETH Zurich, held at the home of Clea Gross and Carlos Matter in Verduno, Italy. Clea, an architect, had designed the studio for her partner Carlos, whose art has had a profound influence. I stayed on a week after the retreat to do some carpentry work at their home. During that time, shot video of Carlos in the process, which involved working on multiple pieces – as many as 20 or 30 over the course of a day. The video, shot on VHS, can be seen here.

In 2000, I returned from Switzerland to Pennsylvania, where in my parents' basement, I discovered a series of drawings made for my MArch degree at the University of Pennsylvania. This was a reminder of how the creative process and abstract thinking led to the completion of my thesis. A few years later, in my photography studio, I began exploring a series of work, which I would describe stemming from the subconscious. 

When discussing the discovery of past work with a friend, who lent the idea of refondata, a Venetian and Esperanto term “being refounded” describing the re-establishment of a building or concept constructed upon earlier foundations.