Beyond my client work, I engage in a variety of independent, long-term projects that dive into creativity, learning, and how we connect our thoughts with making. These projects serve as both research and studio endeavors—like a mix of a laboratory, a journal, and a conceptual framework, all coming together to inspire and explore new ideas.
Together, they explore how ideas come to life, how imagination grows and changes over time, and how practicing creativity can be a wonderful lifelong journey of discovery. Each project is unique, but all are united by a common passion for process, perception, and the beautiful act of becoming.
Kinetic Becoming is a fascinating long-term art project exploring movement, transformation, and the delicate balance between form and change. Through sculpture, clay, photography, video, and digital projection, it beautifully examines how physical materials can evoke feelings of motion, emergence, and the inner states during transitions.
Instead of fixating on permanent objects, Kinetic Becoming sees each piece as a moment in a bigger journey—shapes caught in a fleeting thought, structures gracefully balancing between intention and growth. The work beautifully explores impermanence, embodiment, and the idea that our identity, much like form, is always moving and changing.
At its heart, the project explores a meaningful question: What does it truly mean to become something, rather than just be something?
An Artist’s Journal is an ongoing record of becoming an artist, a reflective practice that explores the ideas, experiences, experiments, and discoveries behind the work. Through words and images, it documents the creative process as it unfolds, from the uncertainty of an idea to the unexpected places that experimentation can lead.
More than a record of finished work, the journal examines the relationship between making, learning, and thinking. It is a place to explore the questions that shape my practice, the failures that teach me, the discoveries that move the work forward, and the continuing process of finding my voice as an artist.
The Forever Student explores lifelong learning as an ongoing part of life, particularly during the years beyond traditional career and retirement. What began as an exploration of learning, purpose, wellness, and community has evolved into an educational framework for staying curious, engaged, connected, and open to continued growth.
The project brings together personal experience, research, creative exploration, and practical learning experiences. It includes a working manuscript, a Quality of Life Index, an evolving visual framework, and a series of lessons exploring what it means to continue learning and contributing throughout life.
The Forever Student is a work in progress, and the journey continues.
Imagination 419 offers a fascinating journey into how our thoughts develop into ideas and spark creativity. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science, psychology, design theory, and personal experience, it provides a warm and insightful look into the wonderful workings of imagination.
Instead of seeing creativity as a mysterious gift, Imagination 419 embraces it as a system—something influenced by attention, memory, perception, emotion, and environment. It explores the gentle shifts between thinking, imagining, and creating.
The project serves as both a guiding framework and an encouraging challenge, inviting us to explore how understanding our inner creative processes can inspire more thoughtful, generating, and self-aware ways of working.
