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 a heartfelt written and visual record of studio life—like a cozy notebook mixed with insightful essays and a creative field guide. It beautifully captures the daily joys and challenges of creating: from moments of uncertainty and thrilling discovery to failed experiments, tiny breakthroughs, and the gentle unfolding of ideas over time.
The journal serves as a reflective space where process is more important than outcome. It captures thoughts on design, creativity, learning, and artistic identity, often sitting somewhere between personal reflection and professional insight.
More than just a diary, An Artist’s Journal serves as a thoughtful tool—a gentle way to observe the lively dance of the creative mind and to highlight the often unseen work that happens before anything takes shape.
The Forever Student is a nonfiction project dedicated to lifelong learning, exploring how curiosity, education, and creative engagement can keep us vibrant, relevant, and fulfilled well into later years. It highlights how these passions serve as inspiring tools for vitality, relevance, and meaning beyond the usual career stages.
By blending research, personal stories, interviews, and practical frameworks, the project warmly reimagines aging—not as a time of decline, but as a rich, ongoing journey of learning. It highlights how experience becomes a valued asset, turning potential limitations into opportunities for growth.
At its core, The Forever Student encourages us to embrace a new way of thinking: moving beyond just measuring life by productivity. Instead, it inspires us to cherish ongoing curiosity, keep our minds active, and have the courage to continually start new chapters. This uplifting perspective invites us to see life as a continuous journey of learning and growth, celebrating every step of the way.
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.
