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Embedded in pages of projects and propositions, every architectural event and habitual endeavor finds its residence in
the stretches of this record. Lives and loves and distant landscapes cross paths amongst the anthology; seemingly
unrelated details fuse and assemble a thought process without prejudice or isolation. Embedded within multiple locations,
drives, and disciplines, the distinctions of everyday happenings lose their geographic specificity. This project is merely a
documentation of details. Serving to catalog a constantly evolving method of thinking, simple, subtle observations of
surroundings, influences and artistic icons, rememberings and remote recollections augment resources, thoughts,
datasets, and propositions. Stains of varied brews fill the pages, rings providing codes for origins of thought processes;
they are mere indications of wheres, whens, and hows in passing moments, some accidental, some swollen with purpose.
Hundreds more pages fill bookshelves in separate cities, detached continents.
Thousands of images, hundreds of
thousands of words, in process, already proposed, and enduring precedent – these shabby scratch pads are not sacred.
They are humble registers for the evolutions in lifelong works. It is in the nature of these notebooks to transport the author
to a distant point in time and space, to allow for unintended overlays of history as they deposit pasts, presents, and
futures. Operating as they may in faraway places, the notebooks become annotated controls in a life of vigorous
variables.
PROJECT COMPLETED WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE LSU COASTAL SUSTAINABILITY STUDIO
DATA COURTESY OF GRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS [GIS] PROVIDED BY USGS, USACE, NOAA, USDA