Writing

I’m a designer, artist, and writer based in Brooklyn. My work is all about communication. How do you present the core value of an idea in a way that’s clear, engaging, and even beautiful? I’ve helped all kinds of businesses answer this question in a variety of forms: logos, apps, websites, brands, and copy. If you’d like to work with me, reach out!

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In this sense, the reason for writing is simple: I prefer to open the blinds rather than shut them. I’m searching for a way of speech as gentle as a ray of light.

Honesty is a designer’s greatest asset. You decide to design when you’re dissatisfied with convenient answers. You dig to the root, and you trust that the right forms and structures will filter upward.

Nature or nurture, tradition or novelty — so many debates divide on this axis. They distract from a core truth: everything here and now came through a lineage.

Design and art are both about embodiment. Design is about posture, and art is about gesture. Design is about presentation, art is about what is presented.

It’s always strange to see him, my father, naked; there’s something ancient about it, like staring at a fire, which everyone talks about. No one seems to talk about seeing their naked father.

Orange spray paint on the sidewalk: / OB OB OB OB / notes for construction

Back then the world was not a world of material. / Anything could happen there. And when the earthquakes came, those people / sank into the deepest terror imaginable; it was more than just shaking in their bodies

The headlights opened a clearing ahead / like a page of a book from childhood

We spend much of the afternoon drawing pictures in our notebooks / and moving bare feet through the grass. / The grass is wet over the earth, and it’s cold outside.

Drawing Pictures

The freighter drifted past and we nearly missed it / as we’d missed the sunset. But we saw the light still shone / on the containers, snug in the orange moment.