Shape As Structure
Structure is not only created only through the strength of a material. It can also emerge from how...
Bamboo U: My Bamboo 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...
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...
Who Wants To Live Forever?
Today is my two-hundred and fifteenth birthday. I traipse across my cave and bludgeon my foot on a...
Using Gridshells to build Festival Structures
Bamboo construction is arguably its largest global use. So, in the spring of 2025 I spent a...
The Karma Map Dome – Building with Bamboo at Tribal Earth
The Karma Map Dome – Building with Bamboo at Tribal EarthThe Karma Map dome quickly became a focal...
The Psychology of Art – What Art Teaches us About Being Human (Psychological Therapy)
“The Unconscious” – A piece I did recently to evoking the many archetypes, fears, and voices we...
Jung and the Psychology of Art – Six Psychological Artworks
In August I began a course, Art and Individuation, held online by the Centre for Applied Jungian...