A principle for scaling attention, starting with the physical body and gradually moving outwards from there

An insignia for an evolving creative collective emerging from the ritual work of In Fragments at High Acres Farm

A series of 21 DIY rituals to alchemize old family patterns at High Acres Farm, documented via 21 short films

A ritual to invite a community of friends to plant their hopes and dreams — epilogue to In Fragments

A ritual to install a new energy grid using a network of 27 lightning transformers — part 20 of In Fragments

A ritual to honor the primordial lake with a collection of broken fired mirrors — part 19 of In Fragments

An insignia encapsulating a year of Shamanic studies with a cohort of fellow students known as ‘The Firebirds’

A ritual to disperse the limitations of a pernicious land use agreement — part 17 of In Fragments

A ritual to clear the burden of my mother’s fearful dreams — part 16 of In Fragments

An insignia showing time set free — for a trio of elegant timepieces tracking the cyclical rhythms of nature

An insignia for a video series made in the early days of Covid, composed of the handwriting of some of its isolated guests

A place of retreat at High Acres Farm, named for an old Latin word meaning the attentive noticing of things as they are

A gathering place in Shelburne, Vermont, evolving out of its long history as a private family home

An imaginal future vision for the buildings and thousands of acres of land surrounding High Acres Farm

An identity system for a design and construction company inspired by the work of Christopher Alexander

An insignia for a conference at the University of Vermont exploring the converging climate crisis

An interactive website for a local craft education nonprofit, helping them to modernize their operations

An experimental protocol for using conversation as a way of cultivating presence

A pictographic oracle of rock art images created in the Utah desert — a mirrorlike refuge from the Internet cacaphony

A ritual to honor the closing of the Cowbird digital storytelling community — part 18 of In Fragments

An insignia and website for a local dance nonprofit, enabling them to build a network throughout rural Vermont

A ritual to conjure a creation myth using lake water and linestones — part 21 of In Fragments

A ritual to banish the spectre of my grandfather’s alcoholism — part 15 of In Fragments

A ritual to forge homemade glass in a hillside furnace using the cremated remains of my mother — part 12 of In Fragments

A ritual to source and prepare the ingredients to forge homemade glass from scratch — part 11 of In Fragments

A three-day immersive experience for a group of mentors and friends to help plan the future of High Acres Farm

A ritual to craft a funeral urn for the cremated remains of my mother — part 10 of In Fragments

A ritual to witness the cremation of my mother two days after her death — part 9 of In Fragments

An interactive (and satirical) portrait of the psychological effects of large-scale Internet use on humanity

A ritual to rectify patterns of fear using an effigy dressed as my mother — part 8 of In Fragments

A ritual to connect with a group of mentors and friends — part 6 of In Fragments

A ritual to arrange a set of broken fired mirrors into a rectangular mosaic — part 14 of In Fragments

A ritual to shatter and burn the reflections of nine outdated identities — part 13 of In Fragments

A ritual to collapse related phenomena into a single plane of perception — part 7 of In Fragments

A ritual to examine the particles in a pile of pulverized powder — part 5 of In Fragments

A ritual to pulverize a collection of gray and white stones into powder — part 4 of In Fragments

A ritual to utilize a set of gray and white “seeing stones” — part 3 of In Fragments

A ritual to align the white veins in a collection of ancient gray stones — part 2 of In Fragments

A ritual to witness the many changing moods of a primordial body of water — part 1 of In Fragments

A proposed project to celebrate Google Translate’s milestone of 100 languages supported, commissioned by Google

A proposed installation about online self-expression, commissioned by Twitter

A proposed project about the evolution of consciousness on Earth, commissioned by U2 for their world tour

An interactive portrait of performance artist Vito Acconci, created in New York City shortly before his 75th birthday

An illustrated collection of phenomena related to the number ‘27’ which for many years I used as my pen name

A proposed design for a house at High Acres Farm, based on two golden rectangles at 27 degree angles to one another

A manifesto on the promises and perils of so-called ‘Big Data’ — commissioned by The New York Times

A portrait of the realities of those who make fantasies using 10-second video clips shot every 10 minutes for 10 days

A storytelling platform and public library of human experience with nearly 100,000 searchable stories

A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan — using hundreds of brightly colored balloons

A 443-day practice of making a photo and short story each day — posting them online each night before going to sleep

An installation of interconnected memories using a network of color-coded strings running from picture to picture

A book exploring human emotions as understood through Internet data, published by Simon & Schuster

An interactive library emphasizing the interconnection of ideas, filled with hundreds of interviews with fringe thinkers

A proposed project to travel from the southern tip of Africa to far eastern China, exchanging gifts along the way

A fractured collage of sexual desire among men and women, created in two hours at a live event in New York

A proposed project to gather stories from China at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, commissioned by Kodak

An interactive portrait of the search for love (and self) through the world of online dating, commissioned by MoMA

A sequence of 3,214 images timed to match my heartbeat, taken over nine consecutive days in Barrow, Alaska

An interactive system for generating new constellations, showing modern mythology as deduced from global news

A time capsule (the world’s largest) whose contents were beamed into space as binary code using a laser

An interactive portrait of passion — from love to hate — using real-time data collected from blogs

An exploration of human emotion through large-scale blog analysis, via six interactive movements

An interactive visualization of real-time science news as a playful particle system, commissioned by Seed Magazine

An insignia design for an annual competition at Princeton University celebrating the beauty of science imagery

An anonymous question and answer system with only one rule: to ask a question, you must first answer someone else’s

A proposed installation using sheets of white paper, commissioned by the Ground Zero Freedom Center

An insignia for a news technology startup based in New York, showing the morning sunrise composed of many sources

An interactive mosaic of real-time blog images beginning with the letters V, O, R, and N — for Vorn Magazine

An interactive mosaic of the pictures and words that define the time, updated each hour by analyzing global news

A satirical website for a fictitious company selling products that capitalize on America’s fear of terrorism

An experiment in computer vision tracking techniques: the classic game of limbo as an act of surveillance

An interactive visualization of the 88,000 most frequently used English words, displayed as a very long sentence

A set of infographic maps commissioned by the International Networks Archive at Princeton University

A set of travel journals filled with watercolor paintings, drawings, plants, insects, and other ephemera

A comprehensive design system for a breath mint company, including logo, packaging, website, and other materials

An illustrated story about an Icelandic woman who travels by coincidence through all 50 U.S. states in alphabetical order

A news clustering service that automatically finds multiple perspectives on major international stories

A publication about world cultures via first-person travel narratives — created at Princeton University

A hand-painted mural for the Princeton dorm room known as ‘The Zoo’ — depicting its ten residents as jungle animals

A quarter design proposal for the State of Vermont, part of which was used in the coin’s final design

A set of 27 traditional plein-air landscape paintings of the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts

A set of drawings from life made during four years of study at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts

A set of pen-and-ink drawings of buildings and objects at a local museum, commissioned for their catalogs

A set of satirical cartoons created at Deerfield Academy, inspired by the legacy of political cartoonist Thomas Nast

A collection of drawings depicting imaginary superheroes and other fantasy figures, created throughout childhood

A collection of artwork created in the first fifteen years of my life, much of it at St. Bernard’s School in New York City