HOW I WORK
the conversation

First we talk.  We discuss the architectural project, the client’s assumptions about the desired artwork, and the client’s time and budget constraints.  Issues that steer my recommendations for shaping the artwork are:

• visual.  How will the designed space be used?  What sorts of people will frequent it?  What is the story, the atmosphere we are trying to capture with the artwork?  How does the client see the project in the mind’s eye?
• use of the artwork.  Paintings to persuade a city’s philanthropic leaders to fund a world class cultural venue might differ from those presented to a neighborhood zoning advisory board.  Uses as different as those drive our visual choices —the image’s point of view, atmosphere, level of detail.
• the information the client has on hand.  Most of my clients now can give me computer-generated models to work from, and we select views from those models.  I also work from loose, hand-drawn sketches, photographs, or from my own perspectives drawn from plans and elevations.