Armchair Psychologist

08/29/2026

08/28/2026

The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be,
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.
Excerpt from a poem by Robert Frost

08/22/2026

Looking at water, being water.
This past August I spent a week with ecologist and artist Dr. Rene Henery (Trout Unlimited / University of Nevada, Reno Global Water Center) at Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake. It was such a pleasure to meet Rene — from our very first conversations I felt an immediate, deep connection to water and to the questions he’s spent his life exploring.
Our first days were pure exploration and experimentation — building an instrument designed to listen to the water itself, and spending long hours on Lake Tahoe just talking, thinking, and connecting.
We also spent time in the Caldor burn scar landscape, documenting how the terrain holds memory of what’s burned and what remains.
Rene and I spent time together on the Jamie B, which now sits in the gallery, activating the space alongside the short video.
A highlight was getting out on the lake with Dr. Sudeep Chandra (Sudeep), Professor of Limnology at UNR and Director of the university’s Global Water Center, aboard the research vessel for a day of TEON monitoring work. His energy is infectious, and seeing the lake through the eyes of a scientist who has studied it for decades was a gift.
Rene and I are working toward a show at the Tahoe Gallery this November, alongside a related exhibition Austin Pratt is curating at Sheppard Contemporary on the water, wildfire, and geology of the interior Northwest — that one will include three of my pieces alongside work from Rene. Still evolving as we go.
More to come. 🌊🔥

08/09/2026

Quiktrip between the Work storms up to Fort Bragg on my friend Pauls fine craft, ripple.

07/27/2026

Revisiting a job site from earlier this year. I had the opportunity to work for Ono architects. Looks like I’ll be doing another project for these guys. If you haven’t heard of them, you will. They do fantastic work very creative. Very simple. Just like their architectural office. I really liked how the quarter inch aluminum countertop, shelving, an island turned out. Also loved working on their conference room door.

07/25/2026

Tool for Revealing Lost Information

A phonographic needle traces the growth rings of a length of wood, translating years of environmental variation — drought, rain, growth — into sound through an embedded speaker. The audio isn’t the point. It’s a way of listening for information nature already recorded, and that we’ve largely lost the fluency to read.

I’m revisiting this piece during my current residency at Lake Tahoe, working alongside my collaborator Rene Henery on the water systems of the Sierra and Great Basin. That work is asking a similar question at a much larger scale — how much information is held in rivers, snowpack, and fish populations that we’ve stopped being able to read. This piece feels like a smaller, quieter version of the same problem: a tool that points at what we’ve lost, and tries, in a small way, to close the gap.

07/16/2026

Fishing with Paul