a personal timeline

from here
toward origin

A linear descent through place, pressure, repair, systems, weather, water, technology and the ordinary maintenance of being alive.

The line is still here, without its moving parts.

Swan Valley / Perth hills

Present Day

repair, teaching, parenting

A life does not announce its meaning, it asks to be maintained.

Perth hills

2024

Montessori change

Teaching begins to feel less like extraction and more like weather watching.

Swan Valley / Perth hills

2020 to 2023

retreat, digital art, rupture

The world narrowed to house scale.

roads, ramps, classrooms, coast

mid to late 2010s

fatherhood, pressure, sailing

The water offers freedom only after reading the conditions.

Western Australian roads

early 2010s

marriage, house, adventure

Some futures arrive as timber, rust, receipts and light through unfinished rooms.

Norseman / Esperance

2008

edge town, blue coast

Some landscapes do not explain themselves. They simply correct the scale of your thinking.

Perth / Inner City

mid 2000s

music, hedonism, systems

Sound became architecture for surviving states that could not last.

Denmark

2003

octagonal house

A young person trying to turn sound into shelter.

Bridgetown

2000 to 2002

caravan years

A caravan is a room that admits it might leave.

sharehouses

2000

leaving home

Freedom arrives with dishes in the sink and rent due.

Donnybrook

1990s

childhood and early teens

Small towns teach surveillance before they call it care.

Collie

late 1980s

early childhood

Before narrative, there is temperature.

origin

before memory

near blank

Almost nothing.

return

not closure,
just weather again.