ON MAKING

Where you grow up teaches you something. I grew up watching good things fall apart. The rust belt doesn't make you cynical. It makes you specific. You learn early what neglect looks like. A factory that ran three shifts and then didn't. A storefront with original tile work, boarded up. A neighborhood where someone clearly cared once, and then stopped. You notice these things when you're a kid, and then you can't stop noticing them for the rest of your life. That's where the d

There's a moment in every project where you think you're done. That moment is a lie.