Making time to be a MAKER
I've always been a maker. But building a career as a designer meant long stretches where I wasn't actually making anything with my hands.
That changed about three years ago, when I set up a woodshop in my garage. I started making things for my house, for my daughter, for family-gifts that existed outside a screen. Then I got a laser cutter and kept going, moving from wood into paper.
I've always loved miniatures and dioramas, so paper felt like permission to really play in that world, designing a piece, cutting it out, assembling it by hand.
Every piece in this shop is a real, physical object before it's ever a print. Some involved genuinely tricky problems to solve; a paper taxi cab, a 3D evergreen tree, a curved slide, to name a few. I share the process on Instagram under the same name if you want to see how these actually get built.
So what you're buying here isn't a stock illustration. It's a photograph of something that sat on my workbench for days or weeks before it ever became a file.
