Environmental Design
Restoring relationships between the physical and metaphysical spaces we inhabit.
My environmental design process begins with an understanding that our bodies are the first spaces we occupy. We tune into our minds, hearts and bodies to identify intentions, priorities, opportunities and challenges. From this centered state, we work together to dream, get curious and take risks. As a creative team, we clarify and implement design adjustments.
Through each project, we weave a tapestry of interconnection, pleasure, ritual, safety, beauty, function, imperfection, play, and trust. Whether it’s an active public space or an intimate corner, our co-created design process will help harmonize the places you live, work and gather.
Experiential
Design
Emphasizing collaboration and the creative process.
I help create moments of discovery, composition, engagement, attunement, and meaning for myself and for others. The experiences we can create might be a kind of facilitated group workshop, a deeply personal ritual, or a communal celebration. These experiences are analog, in person, and usually set in nature.
Altar
Design
Honoring that which connects us.
During the Pandemic, I rediscovered the power of the Altar. Searching for a way to connect to friends and family, grieving for humanity in crisis, and modeling hope for my children, I began making little Altars around the house. On my kitchen windowsill, in the garden, near the fireplace, wherever I felt called. My Pandemic Altars grew into more elaborate offerings for ancestors, newborns, seasons, specific locations, or special events. I would be honored to help you create a unique Altar tableaux for a special occasion or individual in your life.
Since the artist cares in a peculiar way for the phase of experience in which union is achieved, he does not shun moments of resistance and tension. He rather cultivates them, not for their own sake but because of their potentialities, bringing to living consciousness an experience that is unified and total.
— John Dewey, Art as Experience