Artist

I make small versions of large places: kitchens, libraries, courtyards, the rooms history left behind. Each piece is built at 1:12, sometimes 1:24 when the space asks for it, and takes months. I try to keep the work honest to whatever period it lives in. Hinges that fit the era, paint with the right unevenness, wood with the grain pointed the way it would have been pointed.

I started this in 2019 in a corner of my apartment with a hobby knife and a stack of basswood. Now there is a workshop, a small herd of clamps, and a habit of staring at lath-and-plaster reference photos for too long. The pieces here are the ones that made it past every doubt and out into the light.

Each piece begins in books and archives: old photographs, architectural plans, surviving examples in museum collections. I am not trying to copy one exact room. I am trying to learn what a room of that time actually was, so the miniature reads true at every distance.

From there I draw it out and do a lot of measuring, so the proportions are settled before any wood gets cut. The rest is hand tools and patience. Everything you can see gets cut, fit, and finished by hand.

Basswood and plaster for most of the structure. Brass and copper for hardware, drawn down to wire when a piece calls for it. Acrylics with a lot of glazes and washes. Newer paint, but used the way a restorer would, building color in thin layers until it sits right under glass.

The longer build notes, process photos, and the things I learned the hard way live on the blog. If you are curious about the why and how behind a piece, or what is currently sitting half-built on the bench, that is the place to go.