I began making websites in late 2021, when I made a simple portfolio website for my film partnership Seventh Direction Films. I made the very first version with our hosting provider's free site building tool, but the limits quickly sent my partner Gabriel Studer-Randall and I down a path of discovery that led us to Wordpress. I wish I had more documentation of that early Wordpress site, for nostalgic purposes if nothing else, but I remember that it was an inconsistent nightmare design-wise and Wordpress felt so bloated for what we wanted to do (I don't need ten SEO plugins and twenty shopping cart pages, Wordpress!). Being the perfectionist that I am, I messed with the custom CSS enough that I soon got familiar with the language, and when Gabriel decided to learn HTML and JavaScript to make his own site from scratch, I followed suit.

Since sometime in 2022, I've been consistently tinkering with this site in my free time. For a while, it was just a film and photography portfolio, but since taking a hiatus from more serious film work in 2025, I've added a bunch of other art projects and will continue to add more. I don't need this site to be a professional portfolio anymore, and I do plenty of other work I'd like to show off, and as I move away from social media as the home for showcasing my artistic endeavors, this is the natural place for them.

I overhauled the website in Spring 2026 to lean further into the design language I'd begun developing in late 2025. The border on the left side of text sections, the diamond as a separator/bullet point/design flourish, and the green accent color being strictly for interactions instead of for most links are all changes that had been in the works for a while and are now universal. On the back end, I cleaned up a lot of old code, sped up the site by making sure more code is only called when necessary, and implemented a PHP variable system to make my life easier.

In the next few months, I'm finally going to bring back a light mode toggle, add lazy loading to speed up the image-heavy pages, and add a bunch of new and old projects (as of April 18th, 2026, I've added 5 this year and planning to add at least 5 more by summer).

I designed the color scheme of the site around earthy tones, both because it's a personal favorite color palette and because there are a lot of dark images on the site that I'd like to stand out from the background. The various browns contrast with the bright green of the accent color and the orange of the headings, while keeping readability high and providing a unique character to the site.

The NEW tags mean the project was added recently, typically within the last 2-3 months. This is why you might see something from years ago with the tag.

The left hand border with the curved bottom is a piece of design language I've finally made universal across the site, signifying primary text content like information about a project, as opposed to secondary information like metadata, which will be in the subtitle color.

The diamond ◆ is a divider between information that might be confused with surrounding text, as well as a design flourish in select places such as either side of page titles (on desktop).

The slightly different background colors used throughout the site are also very intentional. The color of the header and footer, which also appears as the background color in a few other places throughout the site, are meant to make text stand out while communicating that it's not interactive. Conversely, the lighter color of button borders and backgrounds communicate that the item is clickable.

Links throughout the site are underlined, except in the header or footer where the underline is used to show which page you're on.

The plan for this site is to be the home for all of my creative work, including things I did in the past that I didn't put online when I made them. I've been putting a lot of effort into finding and curating material from past projects to showcase here, and expanding on them where I can with more pictures and writing about them than I've shared before. These include a couple photography projects, many more individual photos, and a few graphic designs I've made over the years.

New projects that I'm currently working on include more additions to my Microscopic Stained Glass collection, some 3D modeling work I'm doing, and at least one more font (soon, enough to make a dedicated Fonts page). I'm always working on music and writing, but time will tell whether I make those available here as well.