Titled Artwork (2017)

This 4′ x 8′  piece of  shallow relief sculpture is mounted on four reinforced hardboard-surfaced panels that can be separated for easy relocation. In fact, I had no motivation for creating this project other than using up remnant supplies left over from building projects while creating a portable “pseudo-mural” for a large empty wall in one of my previous architectural   » More

Palazzo (2016)

Between 2013 and 2016 I oversaw the renovation of a 3000-square-foot, five-story 1865 Italianate masonry townhouse in Boston for myself and my family. I originally had purchased the house in the South End Historic District in 1996, well before I received my architecture degree and largely before rampant gentrification and its attendant speculation had swept the neighborhood of much of   » More

The Bishop’s Desk (2011)

In 2011  I pulled what seemed to be a small wooden writing table out of a snowbank where it had been discarded. I discovered, after I had dragged the filthy wet thing inside, that it was damaged beyond usability. Only the turned legs, the sides, the four-space drawer, and the base of tobacco-colored wood (beach, I think) were actually intact;   » More