Larry 
I recently dug up a paper I wrote back in grad school while searching my digital archive, prompted by a question about teaching math in elementary classrooms. It’s a bit of an outlier compared to everything else on this blog, but this felt like the right place to share it. After all, what’s a blog … Read more
This story comes from a much earlier fork in the road, back when my life still involved other people deciding what tasks I had to do and what “professional” was supposed to look like. I’ve continued digging through old writing lately and found this one, which feels like an accidental origin story. It’s not about … Read more
We just completed a project at the Corning Museum of Glass. Over the course of the weekend, roughly 250 people participated in the construction of a sea anemone inspired by the work of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. I’ll come back to that installation in a bit. First, I need to provide some backstory. I love … Read more
Every grand project starts with a crazy idea. Sometimes it’s sparked by ambition. Sometimes it’s ego. In my case, it was a conversation with my first wife, Judy, while she was in a coma. Back in 2003, Judy had just given birth to our enby when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. “One of the … Read more
What happens when art made from misunderstood materials gets left out of public funding conversations? This week, I find myself in a frustratingly familiar position. A teaching artist had to cancel a performance this coming weekend due to a family emergency, and I am the logical replacement. The venue is on board with me. I’m … Read more
Professor Rem had a rule. And I broke it. A lot. Jim Reminicky, known to most as Professor Rem, was a magician, well-known in many magic circles, not so much for his performance skills, but as a scholar of magic. He read every book on magic he could get his hands on. Early in my … Read more
I didn’t set out to become a photographer. I just wanted my balloon sculptures to be photographed the right way—which, at one time, meant “the way I saw them in my head.” Back during the first Balloon Manor (a 10,000 square foot haunted house made of balloons. More on this coming soon to a blog … Read more
When I started traveling internationally in my twenties, I quickly began to notice a few things. I won’t say any of them were particularly shocking. Some were actually pretty obvious. But I suspect a few would have blown the minds of the teachers I had growing up. The ones who told me, with absolute certainty, … Read more
By 2009, I had already done a number of large-scale projects around the world. But between the exotic adventures, I still did regular work closer to home, including elementary school assemblies, or the occasional library or museum show. One of those “filler gigs” was scheduled at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. … Read more
