I love working with my hands. Sculpture is where my architectural thinking slows down and becomes tactile — an intimate way of exploring materiality, form, scale and light before they are translated into buildings and cities. Working with a chisel and hammer, and sometimes a mechanical saw, I come to understand stone, clay and wood at a much deeper, bodily level: through resistance, weight, fracture and grain. This physical dialogue with matter sharpens my intuition and feeds directly into my design process, informing how spaces are shaped, how they are touched, and how they age. There is something primal and grounding about sculpting — an act of making that strips the material back to its essence — and it remains a vital source of inspiration in my design work.
