Category Archives: Life

MPLS – Future Proof

I began working inside downtown Minneapolis in the summer of 2008. At the time, I didn’t think about how working inside of a carpeted and climate-controlled urbanized shopping mall would effect me. Now, nearly two years later, I can say that I have been profoundly effected. After working within the architecture of corporate America on [...]

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The Unbearable Lightness of the #18A Bus

Conversation overheard on the #18a bus this morning:

A woman in a puffy trashbag-like Northface winter coat is complaining that every artist (from “That Beyoncé” to the Jacksons) lip-syncs. She looks puzzled as she tries to explain her dislike of the practice of dubbing and lip-syncing live performances to the half-asleep, rapidly drying-out middle-aged woman next [...]

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Nesting

Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space has been filling my imagination as I work through the most intense nesting instinct I’ve had in years. His focus on the lived aspects of architecture over the historical and formal are the imaginative quirks that served as inspiration for my work as an artist and as an apartment [...]

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December 27, 2009

It is official. I am deeming 2010 my year of… LESS. Less stuff. Less trauma. Less want. Less erroneously placed ambition…
As many of you know, I am moving once again. This time into an amazing, large, and friendly apartment in an Art Deco building somewhere in the confines of Uptown. Think classy but with a certain degree [...]

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December 13, 2009

As the slide into full-blown winter solidifies, the concepts of failure and reduction have taken over my thoughts. When one thinks of improvement, of being a “better person”, the tendency is to look at what we lack and emphasize what we can acquire. I feel like I have been caught in this quagmire of acquisition [...]

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TPTP Paris…

AH! Finally some exceptionally good news comes my way. I have been selected to participate in an exhibition at TPTP in Paris. It looks like an amazing, energetic, and fun gallery space and I am thrilled to break the spell of exhibition drought with this show. Thank you Phillip Tonda, for selecting my work!
I will [...]

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Les Portes Du Souvenir

As I was walking into work this morning, I realized that living in the far north of the continental US has its benefits. While I may complain that the city is often unpopulated and boring at times, it is almost always a great place to turn to for a healthy dose of surrealism. For example, [...]

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October 20, 2009

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Everywhere And Nowhere Simultaneously

As usual, I am going to ramble along as I work out a few ideas that have been lingering in that cobwebby part of my brain I rarely use. I am referring to the creative/artistic part of me that has been languishing recently as I focus my life on more practical tasks like paying bills, [...]

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Safe (For The Moment)

I’m not sure if I am caught in an atemporal vortex or if Minneapolis is hitting some sort of built-environment equilibrium. While walking home yesterday, humming various bits of soundtrack to myself, I noticed that my city is engaged in a process consisting of equal parts renewal and equal parts decline. As the first image [...]

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