A Decade of Doing One Thing Wrong
I was looking at a stack of rejected chair prototypes in my studio this morning—the ones with the failed joinery and the impossible curves—and I realized they are actually more…
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Still Interested After Three Decades
I was staring at a pile of rejected chair legs last Tuesday—walnut, scarred by a misplaced router bit, sitting in the corner of my studio—when the question hit me again.…
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What I Stopped Doing
I spent most of my twenties believing that “process” was something you could buy—a proprietary software suite, a specific set of expensive drafting tools, or a high-concept studio ritual that…
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What Happens to the Tools
I remember sitting in my studio three years ago, surrounded by the scent of sawdust and the heavy, silent weight of a project that had simply stalled. I had spent…
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Installing Into a Room That Is Not Square
I was standing in my workshop last Tuesday, staring at a walnut joinery component that refused to sit flush, feeling that familiar, hot prickle of frustration in my neck. I…
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The Morning After a Delivery
I spent most of my thirties surrounded by the smell of sawdust and the low hum of a CNC router, convinced that “inspiration” was something that arrived in a lightning…
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Rebuilding Something Ten Years Later
I was digging through a cardboard box in the corner of my studio yesterday—one of those graveyard bins where I keep every failed prototype, each one tagged with a handwritten…
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A Notebook of Unbuilt Things
I have a shelf in my studio crowded with what most people would call trash: warped plywood scraps, failed joinery, and sketches that look more like frantic scribbles than “art.”…
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Getting a Finished Piece There Undamaged
I remember standing in my studio three years ago, staring at a hand-turned walnut stool that had cost me six weeks of my life, only to realize I was about…
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What I Would Say to Myself at Twenty
I spent most of my twenties thinking I needed a high-end studio, a suite of expensive software, and a massive library of “inspiration” to be taken seriously. It’s a lie…
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