A working desk with field notebooks, photographs and reference textiles
Portfolio, Vol. I

Projects in motion, kept honest by the people they serve.

Each project below began as a conversation in someone else's kitchen. We resource the work, write up the record, and step out of the frame. The summaries here are short; the project pages tell you what was actually agreed.

Echoes of HeritageBespoke Custodians
Selected Work

Six projects, six rooms we were invited into.

A weaver's hands at a tall vertical loom in warm afternoon light
Commission, Vol. I
2022 to 2025

Loom Songs of the Atlas

A three year residency with the master weavers of the Middle Atlas, recording the dialect of warp and weft that has held a valley together for nine generations.

Middle Atlas, MoroccoRead the chapter
Adobe walls rising into sunset light over an arcaded courtyard
Conservation, Vol. II
2021 to ongoing

Adobe Light, Djenné

Djenné, MaliRead the chapter
A long communal table set with bread, copper bowls and warm lamplight
Archive, Vol. III
2023 to 2024

The Diaspora Letters

Senegal, France, Brazil, USARead the chapter
A Xiqu performer in full costume backstage in low warm light
Performance, Vol. IV
2022 to 2024

Xiqu Voices Archive

Guangdong, ChinaRead the chapter
Detail of arched Roman masonry at golden hour with conservators on scaffold
Dialogue, Vol. V
2024 to 2025

Colosseum Conservation Dialogue

Rome, ItalyRead the chapter
A long sand-coloured beach at dawn with painted pirogues and figures at work
Field School, Vol. VI
Annual, since 2023

Field School, Saint-Louis

A standing summer field school in Saint-Louis pairing university students with master fishers, boat builders and griots to study a coastal heritage under climate pressure.

Saint-Louis, SenegalRead the chapter
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