Creating and Sharing Inspiration

I share with the world through art, photography, teaching, and spreading my love for leading a creative life. The goal of all I do is to create and share what inspires me, and help others create and share what inspires them. Learn more about me and my work in the sections below:

Art

I work with a scattered array of metal, wood, glass, electronics, coding and digital photography. I use photography as a tool to observe the natural world and document my experience in it, and use the images I create as reference points to inspire my physical works. Throughout all I create I aim to express a cohesive feeling that spans mediums. My work is very much a labor of love – I love to make, and I make what I love.

Inspiration

I find immense wonder in nature, science, design, and wrestle with anxiety and chronic back pain. The wonder, excitement, pain and spiritual questioning I often feel leads me to express through art. I feel a great need to share what I find wonderful, as well as a need to transform negativity into something physical that I can reflect on. My work is a deeply personal form of expression for me, but I view it primarily as play. It serves as a tool for personal growth, exploration, and simple fun.

Teaching

I teach metal and woodworking to people of all ages. With a background in professional knife making, I have an advanced skillset with traditional, and modern techniques. Whether teaching in blacksmithing, knife making, or frame making, I love to teach and view it as a opportunity to share my joy of creating with others.

Philosophy

Playful creation is a practice many people seem to lose touch with in adulthood. The ability to transform natural resources into tools and art is central to being human and reconnecting with it can bring simple excitement for life. It’s very cathartic to transform natural materials into an expressive form, and I see great potential to bring genuine positivity into the world through making. In my teaching I hope to share this viewpoint and show the positive feeling in making, and how it’s accessible to all.