It must be hard to trace the logic around my projects and interests: my day job in information technology — operational resilience, digital currency, artificial intelligence; my background in information architecture, library science, and open source; and my ongoing artistic work in meditation, philosophy, literature, and publishing.
I pivot often. At heart I am an artist, using an arts-based business model and repackaging what I do in different surface forms for better traction. I also learned a great deal from IBM sales. In my last years with IBM Watson I worked as a Technical Presales Architect, travelling worldwide with a sales team. That experience taught me to focus on the positive message, signal not noise.
It may look a little wild from the outside, but I stopped explaining myself long ago.
What I never compromise is the anchor, the path: to create a worthy work of art.
I was inspired early on by John Coutanche, my high school English literature teacher at Parkside Collegiate Institute in St. Thomas, Ontario. I looked him up today and learned that he passed away on April 12, 2017.
Our English literature class was a small circle of Grade 13 students. On the last day he handed each of us prints of a few verses. One of them set my path:
I give you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall.
~ William Blake
Thank you, Mr. Coutanche.
Last Updated on November 29, 2025 | Published: November 29, 2025