When I first came up here I built a house on the back of my truck and later some cabins on the beach. Then I began a process of asking people if I could borrow their space for five or six months as a building site for a mobile home project. At the time it was a matter of getting a house up and believing that I could put it somewhere else sometime later. It seemed a bit of a backwards way of going about it, but it was also appealing. In the end we all need someplace to call home - a place to put energy that is tangible and good.
Building is very much a process.
You begin with a kernel, something very modest and it grows from there. I find a lot of joy in having an idea of structure and space in my mind, that I want to create - how you want this space to nurture you and how you want to feel about living there. At the speed I work the 'story' changes and evolves. It starts to gather momentum, takes its own course and the ideas then become tangible. I absolutely hate it when people try to impose the value where one has to be fast, fast, fast.