My passion has been with me throughout my life and I have gained clarity around it as I’ve gotten older. As a kid, I used to love riding my BMX bike around town with my best friend, looking for things we could jump off or do tricks on. Eventually, we designed and built our own track with jumps in the woods across the street. When I wasn't sculpting bike jumps, I turned to fort-building, making little custom spaces in nature which always seemed to include a private office, a communal hang out, and a bathroom. Legos with my best friend occupied many hours, too…making and reinventing spaceships, bases and vehicles. I was learning that I loved to move my body, play in the physical world and be creative.

For me, college was a place where I began to discover how to weave seemingly disparate interests together. I went to Bard College, a liberal arts school that nurtured my interests in philosophy, psychology, politics, astronomy and the arts. I found myself gravitating more and more toward the art department, where I could be free to explore whatever subjects I wanted to while pursuing my passion for manipulating the physical world. There I was influenced by an art professor who was an installationist…she made sculpture that people inhabited rather than putting a sculpture into a space for people to behold. Something spoke to me about how spaces made with intention have the the potential to inspire powerful experiences felt by those that occupy them. I was discovering a medium where I could combine the passions of my head and heart with my love of working with my hands and body. 

I left school wanting to deepen my ability to manipulate the physical world, to deepen my understanding of what my art was about and to identify how I could offer something to the world that I could support myself with. After lots of reflection, I realized that the crucible of my creativity was flow states - ways of tapping into intelligence outside of conscious thought that feel great to be in and produce things of meaning and beauty. My way into flow states were puzzles; scenarios with a few rules or restrictions and some type of goal or mission. I believed that my source of joy and inspiration could be a potent basis upon which to support myself. I also felt gratitude for many things I had received in life and I wanted to pay it forward by making the means of supporting myself involve some kind of contribution to society. I was inspired by my belief that there is something of beauty and value within each of us and made it my mission to help people to get in touch with that and to express it.

Now, as a self-employed general contractor, I’ve found my calling. I get to use my flow state practice to generate art that people inhabit to help them be their best selves. I transform their living space based on what nurtures and inspires them so their surroundings lift them up and propel them forward, thus making a better world one client at a time.