I spent the first half of my professional life immersed in digital technology, completely enmeshed in the evolving language of screens, pixels, and code. As a young graphic designer in the late 1990s, I forged my early career during the onset of the digital age, a time when creative boundaries were being redrawn overnight. I was an animator for children’s broadcast television, a designer and developer of experimental interactive stories, and eventually, a co-founder of a digital-first creative agency. We built things that lived on the internet before the internet felt fully formed. It was a time of constant invention and reinvention, and I was entirely swept up in it. The last thing I expected for my professional trajectory was a second act as a metalsmith—an artisan at the workbench, immersed not in code or software, but in fire, metal, and stone.
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