From the rough cut of narrative feature The Raging Heart of Maggie Acker to a documentary teaser for The Loom, my approach to understanding the heart of any project is understanding its metaphor. I work with directors to discover the kernel of emotional truth at the center of their story.

In The Loom, two daughters grapple with their father’s muddied legacy while discovering his uncredited stained glass work across Los Angeles. In The Ever Curious Man, Sydney Cash transports himself by altering and shifting his perspective with flutex glass. In The Raging Heart of Maggie Acker, the protagonist bends time and unpacks her grief with supernatural photography. Each of these projects has explored the role of art in society, a theme which informs my approach to filmmaking as a whole. When we apply how we interact with art to how we interact with story, it allows us to dive deeper on an emotional and interpersonal level.

In The Ever Curious Man, the tension between a son’s resentment and admiration is malleable, like glass melting in its liquid state. The fragility of that father/son relationship is as delicate as that same glass when cooled. How easily glass shatters. The film carries a father’s legacy and the imminent reality of human mortality as delicately as hands carefully unpacking an elegant piece of slumped sculpture. The metaphor at the heart of a project is the engine that drives my aesthetic, stylistic, and structural choices. This tailor fit approach mines subjects for the unique beauty at the center of a story, at the center of a life.