Close-up of a laser-cut wooden topographic map of Berkeley, California. Stacked birchwood layers show the hills rising from downtown toward the University of California campus, with engraved street names, neighborhood labels like Northside and Southside, and the BART line.
Cartographic Art

Where do you love?

I build stylized mixed-media maps, puzzles, and models.

Two sections of a laser-cut wooden topographic map of Tucson, Arizona held in bar clamps during assembly. The larger 12x12 inch square piece shows the city's street grid overlaid with contour lines, while the smaller irregular piece displays dramatic layered terrain with elevation changes visible through the cut plywood laminations.

About

Obsessed since childhood

As a toddler, I would hyperfixate on the maps that were in the preface of books my mother read to me. As a teenager, I would spend hours drawing maps and thinking about how the water and the mountains and the land affected the communities that I imagined to live in them.

Now I combine GIS software with laser cutting to make those worlds real. The maps I build are touchable and textured and quite durable so you can hold them up to your eyes and put yourself in the shoes of their inhabitants.