Schools I’ve gone to, the downtown skyline I’ve been able to see all my life, and indeed most new buildings repeats rectilinear shapes ad nauseam. I’ve always preferred the shapes of windows and doors on older buildings that, perhaps unimaginatively, echo the decorative forms of arches, cornices, etc.

I need to make things beautiful, and meaningful. Those two goals are completely different, but both important to me. Beauty for the sake of love. Unthinking adoration. Unless my purpose is better served by roughness, I try for beauty. My drawings are frequently not at all beautiful, and precise meaning within one layer seems impossible for me to achieve. Therefore I must acknowledge the possibilities and subtleties of meaning. An ambiguous message still provokes a response.

Is that the goal then? A response, whether rapture prompted by beauty, or a confused conversation prompted by my myriad messages...?

I want to build stable structures. I want to surprise people.

Right now my art considers written language to be linked with architectural endeavors. We build bridges, we build sentences. Syntax makes it work, and so do flying buttresses. One difference: the particular is very important to me in regards to buildings, while language ever-changing, -growing, and abstract is more amazing to me. Individual written works are important and relatively immutable in much the same manner as great landmarks are. Language is used in such a fluid manner, while we do not go around building and tearing down with the same ease as shooting off emails or texts, but perhaps my feelings are also because my linguistic education is more complete than my architectural. I do get the same feeling with the structures of cathedrals. Apse, processional, greek cross, etc work very well as a visual grammar to me.