Most of my early professional work was ethnographic, having received doctoral training in anthropology. I later began crafting stories with materials, sounds and light to express what is beyond language. I still work in relationship with people but mostly, nowadays, with plants and soils whose lessons are far worthier of our attention.
Commissioned by re:form, an formally curated channel on Medium sponsored by BMW, 2015. [Read]
The cast iron tree grate is a near-ubiquitous feature of urban (and suburban) streetscapes. It has design intentionality and an ambiguous environmental purpose.
On the design side, we have an artful casting…
