Village on Lago Maggiore, near our family summer "campo" not far from our hometown of Vergiate. It’s northwest of Milan and where our family ran a lumber mill for timber from the Black Forest (2004).


Sketch of a work by artist Richard Gill, Fog Run Studio, on one of our summer drives from our camp near Lake Mazinaw to my partner's family in Renfrew in the Ottawa Valley where they once ran a lumber mill (2000).



View of Sto:lo Nation land near Vancouver on a summer ferry crossing to Nanaimo on our way to a week of surfing just south of Tofino, and a visit to nearby Meares island to witness 2,000-year-old red cedars (2002).



Waterfall on a summer trip through the Lake District in northwest England, near Hadrian's Wall and Northumbria where my partner's ancestors originate.

Excerpt from my sketchbook documenting student work during crits at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture in Sudbury. This page shows a collection of images and notes from presentations for a proposed childcare centre in Copper Cliff, Ontario.



Site analysis sketch of "spaces between" found in the bush along the north shore of Bennett Lake on the Laurentian University campus in Sudbury as part of an exploration with students for a sauna design, reflecting on local Indigenous and Finnish traditions.