Beyond work
An extension of me that does not fit on a résumé: what I look at, listen to, practise and read.
- MusicTabla and harmonica. A beginner’s curiosity about the handpan.
- YogaA certified yoga teacher. Practice first, teaching second.
- PhilosophyVedanta and the Upanishads; learning Sanskrit so I can read them closer to the source.
- SpeakingToastmasters since 2006 — club President, VP Education in Denmark, Advanced Communicator Bronze.
- TravelThe Cheap Thrills rules: plan everything except where to go; go cheap, go local.
- DrawingCars, silhouettes, charcoal, rooms in perspective.
Photography
Light, faces and silhouettes. Chosen from my Flickr stream ↗; select one to enlarge.
Whose work shaped mine
Six people I think of as idols of the craft.
Vishwakarma
The craftsman-deity of Indian tradition, honoured by makers and engineers every year. The patron of anyone who builds.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture: a building belongs to its place, and plan, structure and furniture are one idea.
Le Corbusier
Proportion and system — the Modulor, and the home as a ‘machine for living’.
Leonardo da Vinci
Notebooks where anatomy, water, flight and painting share a page. The reason this site looks like a notebook.
Jony Ive
Care taken in the smallest detail, until the object feels inevitable.
Buckminster Fuller
‘Comprehensive anticipatory design’; more with less. The geodesic on the home page is his.