My approach to design, music, creative work and photography is one that is deeply shaped by my love for inventiveness, creativity, and finding beauty in the details and mundane. I believe that sometimes the simplest touch or alteration to perspective can have the highest impact, and that everything, in one way or another, is a form of art.

From a very early age I remember knowing that I would always work in a creative outlet (though I also loved keeping my ledger as an eight year old—I was obviously a very fun child), and I spent my childhood soaking in everything I could to that end. I grew up in a family that built primarily custom experience based vacation homes in addition to other businesses, and I spent hours listening in on architectural and design meetings while drafting my own floor plans. I built worlds in my sketchbooks, and was always driven to understand how to make visions into reality. I spent countless days with old film cameras learning to capture images that conveyed the story I was trying to tell through them, and waiting weeks for rolls to be developed so I could start all over again.

I grew up spending part of my time on a farm in Georgia with my horses and part time on a tiny out island in the Bahamas. In between we travelled often and I loved discovering new places and seeing things from a new angle with a passion that kept me up at night. I found very early that I was deeply drawn to the macabre and the raw, with an equal love for the refined and classical.

I hated rollercoasters but would fly all day long in an aerobatic open cockpit airplane. I was terrified of water and the open sea, but got my scuba certification. I learned early that life was an immensely double edged sword. I had to learn that lesson many times, and I’m sure I’ll learn it many more. I pursued a career in the music industry and worked in concert production until the journey of life sent me on a decade long break. I returned to start new paths swathed in touches of the old. Threw myself in heart and soul to building a world that I hoped lived a little longer than I knew I ever would. If only in memory and magic.

In early 2024 I was surprised with a diagnosis of grade 3, IDH1 astrocytoma. A slow growth form of brain cancer. I underwent brain surgery, expansive radiation and a year of chemo. The experience left me immensely grateful for the life I had lived, and the gift of a little more time on the other side, but it also left me picking up the pieces of what matters most and where one places their time and energy when each day feels like an inexplicable gift. The journey since has been one of reaching for the humans I’m gifted to know and that matter the most, and pouring in in the ways I can contribute to our human experience of life on this planet in the only ways I know how.