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Private View

Forty-five minutes before the doors opened. The work makes a different kind of sense when nobody else is in the room.

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On Singularity

On Singularity

When something can be replaced, it will be. I only collect what cannot.

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Notes on Restraint

Notes on Restraint

Removing one element did not simplify the piece — it clarified the intent entirely.

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The Model

The Model

At 1:50 scale, the entrance is exactly large enough to be humbling.

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The Atelier at Dusk

The Atelier at Dusk

Light from the west window coloured every swatch in the same shade of gold. We stayed until the building told us to leave.

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The Cellars

The Cellars

Three years underground. Whatever is bottled there is currently no one's business but ours.

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The Darkroom

The Darkroom

People ask how long I spend in the darkroom. I tell them: however long the print needs.

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The Book Arrives

The Book Arrives

Three thousand names on the waitlist for something made in a room I can barely stand upright in.

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Seven Conversations

Seven Conversations

Seven lunches, seven agendas, seven different definitions of the word urgent.

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The Alpine Sessions

The Alpine Sessions

No windows, no clocks, no interruptions. Three days of work that will last a decade.

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The Atelier at Dusk

The Atelier at Dusk

Light from the west window coloured every swatch in the same shade of gold. We stayed until the building told us to leave.

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On Invisibility

On Invisibility

The most difficult thing to design is the seam that nobody notices.

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