A Practice Without a Cover

type
hand-bound monograph
year
2026
status
case study

A binding that refuses a single front: the book opens from either end, two halves meeting at an unmarked centre. The structure carries the argument before a single word does.

Plainsong, Reset

type
poetry collection / typographic system
year
2025
status
published

A single restrained grid, reused without exception across ninety pages, so that variation in the poems is never confused with variation in the design.

Field Notes, Bound

type
illustrated essay collection
year
in progress
status
commission

Hand-drawn illustration set against a deliberately quiet page — colour restraint and a structural fold used as the only joke the book allows itself.

Études for an Empty Room

type
tape, room tone
year
2024
status
archive

Recordings of rooms with no performer in them — silence treated as a compositional material rather than an absence.

Marginalia (for two readers)

type
graphic score, performance
year
2023
status
performed once

A score written to be read by two people at once, at different speeds — the gap between their readings is the piece.

Notation Without Sound

type
drawing, silence as score
year
2023
status
archive

A notation system for music that is never performed — the drawing is the only version of the piece that exists.

About

Trained in fine art and music before turning to the printed page. Left a position at a publishing house in 2025 to work independently. The practice treats a book the way a score treats silence — as structure, not decoration.

Available for book design, editorial systems, illustrated and hand-drawn publications, and sound-related visual work.

Contact

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