Art and engineering. Engineering in service of art. Engineering facilitating expression, point of view. I’ve been playing with these ethoses my entire adult life, and discovered that there is for me a deep well of inspiration in the grain of wood. Especially from free-range trees, the lives of which can be dramatized via cross section. In a sense, an interesting piece of cut wood collapses the time dimension, much like the sedimentary strata seen in a deep water-cut canyon.

I’ve been building pieces forever, but my interest in woodworking intensified when I started working with non-commodity materials. Working this way is something of a rabbit hole, as the standard commercial felling, milling, kiln-drying, designing, and finishing processes aren’t optimally suited to the type of curation that is most compelling to me. So I took the opportunity to learn and execute all of these steps. And in the process found a voice. It’s a voice that evolves and builds upon itself, like the many rings in the trunk of an oak.