I am an architectural designer by training, a real estate and urban planning consultant by trade, and an artist at heart. My work sits at the intersection of design, development, and public impact, where creativity has to meet feasibility, and big ideas have to hold up against the realities of land, policy, financing, and community need.
My creative practice is rooted in the same questions that have shaped my professional life: how places are formed, how people move through them, and how memory, landscape, and structure can come together to tell a story. I draw inspiration from architecture, maps, construction details, natural landscapes, and the imaginative logic of science fiction and fantasy worlds. Whether I am painting redwoods, live oaks, golden hills, or abstract urban forms, I am often exploring the tension between structure and softness, precision and instinct, the built environment and the natural one.
Professionally, I approach development through a design-minded and analytical lens. I believe the best real estate projects are not just financially viable or physically beautiful, but deeply responsive to their context. Good development requires thoughtful urban design, careful planning, sustainability, and a willingness to work through complexity rather than flatten it. My background has taught me to think iteratively: to ask better questions, test ideas, critique assumptions, and refine solutions until a project becomes more than a building or site plan.
Across both my creative and professional work, I am drawn to complexity. I like projects, places, and ideas with many moving pieces, where the challenge is not just to make something work, but to make it meaningful. In that space between imagination and implementation, I find the most fulfillment: shaping ideas into places, images, and stories that feel grounded, intentional, and alive.