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I am a Los-Angeles based artisan turned industrial designer. My work, which I began after obtaining my MFA and refining my prototyping at Art Center College of Design, spans free-standing furniture, ceramic and concrete tiles, outsized surfaces, and outdoor 'vessels' for plants and water features.

I begin with a hierarchy, which works backward from the concepts of many of my contemporaries. I have long held minimalism not as a movement but rather simple decoration with spare use of line and material choices... cleanly ornate design. Still, I maintain a humble disregard of function initially and design to decoration, not form.

Ornamentation... preciousness - is at the very nucleus of design. It is the DNA of the form, it is the origin, so that is where you start. To me, the DNA is where I find the life, the activity, and the movement.