w.oodland

w.oodland is a space to work and to focus. it is where wood and steel, tools and thought, come together. projects here move between science and building, writing and observing, always with the aim of making something real.

the mind is part of the toolkit. ideas surface from below awareness and rise into view (sleep, runs, stargazing, the quiet between tasks). some arrive sharp, others faint, like low signal-to-noise fragments. i keep field notes to catch them, then turn them into experiments, code, sketches, or builds. the loop is simple enough: notice, name, test, keep what holds.

the scales stay connected. a microscope reveals pond protists in their folded geometries, cilia beating like tiny engines. a camera holds the middle world of grain and shadow. a telescope pulls starlight in, and on clear nights i step outside to wait for shooting stars. all of it runs on light and pattern (a photon hits retinal, cis to trans, signal begins). the same habits and the same math show up across the spread (symmetry, fourier, power laws, bayesian priors). reality stacks in layers, and the work is to read them.

i feed the fish and the birds, i talk with the horses, i try to make friends with the cats. i grow food and i cook food. i make field notes and take pictures, i watch the sunset, i wait for shooting stars. i play music and i listen to music. i read and i write. i dance under the stars and watch films about space. i cut and i weld. i meditate and i think. i focus and i unfocus. i run.

w.oodland is where these folds collect and cohere. the ethos is simple: to see with care, to think with depth, and to build with intent, until the work and the Self begin to feel whole.