The images on this page are evidence of the ritual of discipline. They drawings and paintings represent the cultivation of the habit of attention that makes the practice of design authentic and meaningful.
Sea Urchin Symmetry
Finding a complete sea urchin shell feels like a gift: calcium carbonate bleached white, purple spines long gone, the five fold symmetry legible in the rhythm of large and small bumps radiating out from a central axis.
Oakland, Every Day
Some summer mornings the fog barely burns through enough to make out the cranes in the port. The surface of the water is blindingly, brilliantly white while the ships, facing into the flood, are silhouettes, all color lost.
Oakland, Again
This is the Bay on a typical morning: construction cranes in the foreground, the sun rising through light clouds. The line between water and sky is difficult to discern.
Treasures of the Lost Coast
This pen and ink sketch shows a collection of shells found while hiking the Lost Coast: one of the most remote and rugged coastal hikes in the US.
The Roman Forum
One sunny October day I sat on the dried grass and poppies amongst the ruins in the Roman Forum and drew this church: it's San Lorenzo in Miranda, originally the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina.
Oakland and the Ballpark
Another one of Oakland. Oakland every day.
“…What is on our minds, what we care about most, we find a way to talk about….Your only job is to follow your instinctive, personal, idiosyncratic sense of what is beautiful, and see what emerges. The danger of course is that in doing so you are likely to discover and reveal what it is you really care about…. ”