It is my belief that every different tree has its own unique piece of furniture hiding within it. As a maker, it is my job to work with the wood to expose its full potential, rather than work the wood into what I think it should be. The wood lets you know very early in the process when you are betraying its desires, and contrarily seems to just sing when you are able to interpret those desires. My ultimate goal is to facilitate a connection between the client and the local environment, by allowing the tree to tell its story. Inside each tree there is an autobiography written in the grain; it tells us the story of that tree's life, and gives us an in depth look at the environmental changes in that exact location over the past 60-100 years. This is an amazing thing! Unfortunately, today's consumption channels do their best to keep us at arm's distance from these narratives, separating us form our own naturally human roots, as a participant in a vast environmental machine.