Not being a trained woodworker per-Se.
Breaking all those rules that you, that you never kind'a learned in the first place.
And and kind'a of figuring everything out, as I go along.
Is something that I embrace. You know it's the way of...
kind'a of getting to an end product.
That is the most fun for me.
Anybody can kind'a of, pick up a hammer and a saw, and build something,
and learn when working, and become excellent! At it,
and that's not really my focus it's sort of.
Combining the ascetic, and sort of that, vision with the craft of woodworking.
That's what really informs my work.
Going to art school and, and.
Studying photography like I did.
The program teaches you how to see in a way,
that can almost be applied to anything.
It's a sort of understanding of the visual.
First, I'm like a, I'm a creative person, and secondly, I'm a woodworker,
and,
I cherish the fact that I, that I have a visual side of me.
And that, I sort of try to exploit that, through. Through craft.
What initially drew me to woodworking?
The craft aspect of it?
The idea of craft, at the forefront of what I do.
I think,
over time has,
receded a bit, and what has taken its place has been design.
The vocabulary of making something,
and
applying that to a line of furniture I.
I understand that, and that's something. I can kind ‘a of like set aside.
What's on my plate? That I think about at the end of the day. Is like.
What am going to design, that can relate, to that thing behind it?
I don't do drawings. I don't really plan in advance.
I try to just go with it.
I try, I try to like trust, in that unknown in that, unexpected thing, happening.
And that's something that I don't think it's too,
common to kind ’a of work that way.
I mean, most wood workers I know, will get on CAD, and draw,
out their new design, or draw on a piece of paper, and
spend time making measurements, and make a plywood mock-ups. And I just go for it!
Like, I'll just see where this goes.
You have this idea of a chair in your mind,
and you set about, making it.
And you kind ’a of, start putting things together.
And from that,
picture in your mind, to that piece of wood in your hand.
Things change, you know?
You, you like something better,
in real life,
than you do, in your imagination.
To be able to build these pieces over a series of weeks,
you live with them, and you see them every day, and it's a constant conversation you're having,
and it doesn't stop when you get home you know, it's like, it's.
Really, thoroughly, living with what your'e doing with your life, which is incredible!