Creative practice
Creative projects
Art as a practice of patience
I've always been drawn to crafts that require slow, deliberate attention — the kind of focus that's harder and harder to sustain in a world of constant notifications. There's a particular pleasure in making something physical: a bowl that holds water, a window panel that colours the morning light, a ring that sits on a finger.
My creative practice and my research practice feed each other more than I expected. Both reward iteration. Both involve failing repeatedly before something finally works. Both are fundamentally about pattern recognition — whether reading a dataset or reading the behaviour of clay on a spinning wheel.
Ceramics
My longest-running practice. There's something deeply grounding about working with clay — it demands presence in a way that screens rarely do. I throw on the wheel and hand-build, making functional pieces and the occasional sculptural form.
Stained glass
Cutting and leading stained glass requires the same attention to detail as data pipeline work — except the debugging involves a lot more sunlight. I love the way light transforms through coloured glass differently at different times of day.
Silversmithing
The newest addition. Silversmithing sits at the intersection of precise measurement and sculpture. I'm still learning, which is exactly where I like to be.