opposite worlds

I just spoke to my mate who is enjoying summer mid-night sun in the mountainous regions above the arctic circle - probably my favourite place on this planet. As we move into 'winter' in Melbourne I recall what it is like to actually feel the cold of Norway.

canon ae-1 program / portra VC 160 / no edits

end of semester

it has been another crazy end to the semester. there is never enough time to finish a project, harldy enough time to wash underwear and socks, no time for leisure... but we get through it and revel in the glory of a few small weeks break. i will post some stuff from the semester over the next few weeks. here is a drawing from the site we have been working on - an old industrial area adjacent to and underneath citylink - melbourne's major freeway.

the Oslo Opera House

This is a panel I presented at uni as documentation for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet centre in Oslo. It's an amazing building, which I've been lucky enough to be inside of. We have been learning 3-dimensional modelling as part of our course and these are some of the images and drawings I've produced from the model. It is pretty pretty amazing the stuff u can do with these programs!!! click on it - it is worth a zoom in

cold place ii

Gothenburg, Sweden and rural Norway. Lubitel 166+ / Portra VC 160 medium format

cold place

January in Norway. ilford delta 400 / canon Ae1 program / no edits

a faithful servant

Being uninhibited in architecture or any design is a skill. At first it comes naturally with a naivety that only an unawares first year student can express. The key is to not let the rules of engineering, the comparison to precedent and the suspicion of flare negate your untamed dream. Instead these critical moments should empower your idea and give it structurally sound wings... i need to be faithful to my initial concepts, channeling an artistic desire to produce something idealistic that doesn't conform to prerequisites. be a servant to your dreams.

lomo redscale

Ae1 program / lomo redscale iso 100

Some pics from the beginning of summer in Byron before flying off to Norway for my winter dreaming.

the home studio

Frankie and I draped a wall with a white sheet and set up some nice flash bouncers to do a little shoot for her burlesque character Lux St. Sin a few weeks ago. here are a couple of the pics, and one of me on the couch!

design week 1

This semester we are exploring an opportunity to design affordable housing in North Melbourne.
The site we are investigating lies directly beneath and adjacent to the Citylink Freeway and the train line in an industrial area. The piece of land itself is a wasteland of old mattresses, glass, crates and an abandoned warehouse. One morning i was there painting these stencils and i turned around to find a guy going through my bag. It is a great site! and reminds me of D.I.Y. projects like burnside skatepark where people get together and turn debilitated space into vigorous communal volumes. exciting!

only in autumn

The white afternoon light sank down low, and i stepped out from the worn prints on the track behind my house. i wanted to go and see something that i had only ever seen once in the Autumn 2 years ago. I followed some deer trails under the pine trees and across a frozen creek. clumsily falling thigh deep through the snow trying to navigate the delicate hoof prints. I climbed the small hill which is crested by a beautiful twisted dwarf cypruss pine and wandered past its marbled branches into a deeper forest of craggy birch. The land was familiar, its shapes, undulations, the angle at which the fence ran down into the trees, but so unfamiliar in the same way, like feeling your way around your bedroom in the dark, you know where things are suppose to be - but you still can't be sure.. i slipped through the fence and broke free of the trees into a small clearing where i had stood 2 years ago in October, marvelling at the golds and browns and greens that only autumn in Norway can deliver. Nestled in the lower corner of the feild is a small log shelter, half enveloped by snow now and dark inside. There is something comforting and very personal about finding a place that i'm sure only a handful of people have been to in the 2 years that have past. It isn't hours away, It isn't even very far from my neighbourhhod, but it seems to remain isolated from everyday life, it avoids attention and time and passes fluidly through the seasons without resistance or reminiscence. It is just there, beautifully.