Pipedreamers

03/02/2026

02/14/2026

02/07/2026

Update to a cryptic post from a couple months ago - this is maybe the coolest project I've tried yet.

02/05/2026

unnamed bookshelf, detail, 2026

(an unnamed bookshelf for an unfinished living room, as is evident from looking at the ceiling - someday it will be done and maybe then I'll name it)

(and yes, one of the sconces is a foot further from the bookshelf, this is what happens when you DIY your house without blueprints or a plan)

02/03/2026

Big reveal...

02/03/2026

PHORBIC 001 is on the wall! Sunflowers and dandelions are part of the phorb family, and my wife thought this looked like the center of a sunflower, so there you have it. Maybe we should paint petals around it on the wall...

01/31/2026

Sconce update

01/03/2026

Cut these 5"-thick slices of red oak while processing firewood for the winter today - thinking of trying something fun with them, but I don't know a ton about drying this kind of large-dimension, laterally-cut woodstock.

Should I air-dry these? How much moisture content is acceptable for this kind of lumber? Is hacking an old oven an option for drying these more quickly?

I don't know, but I'll post updates on these bad boys. Comment if you've got any suggestions, either on how to dry them or what I should use them for.

12/19/2025

A good friend once gave me this beautiful stained-glass window she saved from an old Methodist church on the verge of demolition, in the hopes I could find a good home for it.

It's moved since then from spot to room to storage, never really fitting in any of its foster settings, and most recently ended up in the farm building I use as a studio and my wife uses for storage. I felt awful putting it in storage again, having wanted so badly to use it in our house somewhere, but there just wasn't a spot for it.

Until my wife said, " It's the same size as the studio window, why don't you just set it there?"

And it was perfect! Somehow I'd never noticed. And now I see, every time I step into the studio, how much beauty and depth it adds to the already incredible play of natural light - how it refracts the intense winter glare into a brilliant kaleidoscope of color - how something so old and simple can bring so much joy, and look so alive.

And it reminds me too, in this season, of the joy of being an artist in the employ of the great Artist Himself, of the honor it is to take His natural materials and unlock their inner beauty - to be a simple pane of glass, in front of the Light of the World.