I am a woodworker and designer based in the Hudson Valley, New York. For the past eight years, I’ve worked alongside craftspeople and artists to make everything from homes and furniture to fine art and large-scale public sculptures. 

My work is inspired by a fascination with cultural artifacts and techniques—from oceanic shields and Danish briar pipes to vernacular chairs, water towers, African headrests, stave churches, millinery hat blocks and more. These lamps, for example, were created using cold-molding — a technique I encountered working for Martin Puryear— and variations on shapes I encountered in Japanese hollow work, or kurimono. Mainly used for building boats, cold-molding involves layering thin strips of wood over a plywood form and fastening them with thousands of staples and glue. Like a racing yacht, what's left at the end is beautiful, lightweight and strong. Through this approach, I aim to craft objects, whether intimate or monumental, that feel both grounded in tradition and surprisingly new.