Bamboo Art & Design
What Holds It Together
I resist the expectation that objects should be smooth, finished, and immediately legible - an...
Bamboo U: My Bamboo Art Education in Bali
As an artist trying to understand bamboo, I went to Bali to study the structural languages...
Bali’s Bambu Indah: A Working Lab for Material and Structure
I visited the Bambu Indah eco-resort while in studying bamboo construction in Bali. What I found...
Situating My Practice: Lessons from Bali’s Green School
The Green School in Bali represents an enormous body of knowledge about contemporary bamboo...
Process as Alchemy
Some of my work has been concerned with the processes of alchemy as routes towards personal...
Bamboo Surface Transformations
Surface transformations aligned with the stages of alchemical and psychological development:...
Working thematically and in Series
I am greatly influenced by Henry Moore’s idea of a form having a “power of expression.” I work...
Form Studies: Bamboo Hyperbolic Paraboloids
Often used in contemporary Asian bamboo architecture, a hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly-curved...
Working with Irregularity: Bamboo Weaves
There’s often a tension between human conception and working with natural materials. The 'random...
Studio Process & Materials
My studio is a laboratory for exploring what bamboo can become through structure, sculpture, and...
Understanding Form through Bamboo Maquettes
Creating bamboo maquettes as a precursor to larger structures is a traditional process used by...
Prototype Bamboo Furniture
Bamboo is well known for its furniture and building potential. I wanted to explore how this was...
Exploratory Bamboo Assemblies
A constantly-evolving series of material experiments with bamboo assembly. The work ranges across...
Experimental Bamboo Joinery, Lashing and Weaving
My work often involves experimenting with different bamboo connection and joinery techniques. My...
Developing Idol forms through Offcuts
Some of my work is based on death and what remains. It seems to me that we cannot not be our...
Untitled (Ritual form)
I wanted this piece to hold a sense of ritual mystery. This reflects how bamboo is seen in many...
Using Gridshells to build Festival Structures
Bamboo construction is arguably its largest global use. So, in the spring of 2025 I spent a...
Skeleton Woman
Inspired by the Inuit myth of the same name, Skeleton Woman speaks to the possibility of...
Bone Clock
I’m interested in how the past speaks to us beyond our conventional metrics of minutes and years,...
Complex
Materials: Bamboo slats This sculpture visualizes the psychic architecture of a Jungian...
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
This piece evokes the melancholic beauty of dissolution. A collapsing architectural form—its...
Anger – Restrained
Materials: Bamboo slats, string, flock wallpaper These sculptural maquette evoke the sensation of...
Ego as Flag
Materials: Bamboo slats, string, flock wallpaper This sculptural maquette explores the idea of...