How I got here and what I make

I spent a decade and change in the corporate world thinking about the future professionally — designing workshops, running focus groups, leading teams, building brands. Thinking in an office and with a screen was my tool, and craft was something other people did.

Then I left this world. And everything inverted.

What started as a methodology : using futures thinking to help people design their lives with more intention — slowly became something stranger and more interesting. I noticed that the moments my clients had the most genuine insight weren't when they were mapping scenarios or writing vision statements. They were when their hands were busy. When they were cutting, arranging, stitching, mixing colour.

So the question shifted. Not how can craft illustrate a futures thinking process? but what if making IS the thinking?

Life as Studio is what emerged when I stopped treating craft as a delivery mechanism and started treating it as the methodology itself. The cabin became the laboratory. The kitchen table became the design studio. The daily accumulation of receipts, fabric scraps, dyed papers, and found imagery became the raw material — not just for objects, but for the work of figuring out who you're becoming.

Everything I make comes from that conviction: that slow, material, hands-on making is one of the most sophisticated futures tools available to us. It's just never been coded that way.

The photos below show my work from the last few months - Dec 2025 to Feb 2026.