“What I do for my job and what I do with my free time are not really that different. Making is what I do. I am motivated when I cannot find the exact thing I have in mind, whether a light fixture, bag, or queen-size bed with storage underneath. When you begin to learn how things are made, you can customize your world.
Although I formerly designed mass production pieces to provide accessibility, what interests me now is working with my hand and getting back to discovering forms through material manipulation. Such end products fall closer to art than design, as each piece is labor-intensive and unique. Being able to move between the worlds of mass and singular production is the ideal.
I hope I inspire others to make their own products, and that they will follow their intuition and make things rather than only buying them, use what they have in new ways, and shape their spaces to be exactly how they want them rather than the way they think they are supposed to be.”