Some of the things I’ve made with my hands…
The Diebenkorn Stairs
Custom milk paint and lacquer floating stair and attached balcony floor for a client in Charleston, SC. Meant to evoke Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park paintings, I hand painted a series of treads and flooring to create a permanent installation in KH Architect’s “Metamorphosis House”. I also hand lettered a Bukowski excerpt on the exterior facade of the home in a custom color that blends into the surrounding finish at sunrise and sunset.
Featured in: Dwell Magazine, Home World Design, and The New York Times
Set Design/Build: Eugene Onegin
Worked with Tony award winning set designer, Chris Barreca, and the metal shop at TTS Studios to design, model, and build a minimalist set of birch trees for Tchaikovsky’s opera, Eugene Onegin, at Spoleto Festival USA. Each tree’s steel armature was wrapped in torn sections of paper, by me, alone on a scissor lift in a possibly haunted warehouse.
Featured in: Post and Courier, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist
Skin on Frame Canoe
A 13′ “skin-on-frame” canoe, made with steam-bent ash ribs, fir stringers, mahogany gunwhales, brass stem bands, and a transparent polyester skin under the tutelage of Hilary Russell. Each joint was hand-tied with artificial sinew, made to replicate the animal sinew that indigenous peoples use to make traditional skin on frame boats. It weighs under 40 lbs, and you can see the water pass under you as you paddle.
Chairs for Thos. Moser
All manner of dining chairs out of cherry, ash, and walnut for the Thos. Moser furniture shop in Auburn, Maine. WIP Continuous Arm Chair pictured here. I learned about efficient systems and how to create and dial in processes to aid in repetitive parts-making here, all while keeping an eye on delivering a product that still feels rooted in hand craft.
