Growing up, I spent a significant amount of time in nature, bare-foot and paddling in the cedar waters of New Jersey. One my earliest jobs was working on a blueberry farm. Hot and humid days, trudging behind the tractor, sifting through the berries, and loading up pallets to the semi-trucks. It would not be until my first job after college that I would see these past experiences fuse together. I had the opportunity to work for Philips Lighting (now Signify). In this experience, I found a purposeful combination of visual impact and hard work.

 

In that first training class, the instructor changed the color of the lights and asked for participant feedback on “how it changed the mood, and made us feel.” I was hooked. Here was an opportunity to participate in the experience of space by controlling the emittance of light. This launched my career, since then I have gained considerable experience working with a global lighting manufacturers, local San Diego sales agencies, specialty electrical contractors, and on an iconic landmark lighting study with world-renowned artists.

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These installations are important, they bring new perspectives for the viewer, and may very well change their lives forever, just as the cedar waters of my youth reflected the light of the sun, the walls and facades of your projects may gleam out too, challenging the viewer to “think differently.”