how this even happened

SkyPalace came out of me in a most peculiar way, it was my desire to achieve a spire (something I've been drawing over and over in varying forms since I was a kid in Antwerp, Belgium seeing the cathedral there pretty much every week on some school outing or being dragged willingly my by my Mother to see Rubens and all the other darkish brooding painters works spattered through the cities galleries and museums)... an antenna to the skies, a version of all that Gaudi and Corbu and Weight had done... my client allowed this within the fixed budget we set. I had a smaller design at first that required a central support structure for some cantilevered arms which suspended five or six macro-pods for people to lounge in. I found an old 36' tall steel windmill tower on Craigslist near Prescott, AZ and bought it... with this thing I could create great cantilevers... or... I could go up, really tall... so I went up.

always drawing, always making...

Pretty much every day of every week I awake and need to either get to my sketchbook, my chisels, my saws or my jewelers torch. The visuals come in as I sleep and during time spent in water. My responsibility is to capture as much of this as possible. If I do, more comes in... if I slack the river dries up. So I am always in Flow, always in some form of creating something or other. No its not exhausting, its invigorating and I look forward to each new "download".