The built world started to fascinate me during preschool—before I really knew much about the built world at all. I remember as a young boy being particularly enthralled with the wooden play structure at Bev Bos' - the preschool where I learned about ceramics and wearing dresses and exploring my imagination. It was gargantuan to me, reaching up into the sky amongst the old trees that shaded the play area and I was so happy to be inside of this building exploring the different levels and admiring how it was almost a large scale dollhouse. In retrospect I think what I especially wanted to do with the rooms was to decorate them and plan functions for them; at the time, all I could do was look and imagine.
My love for buildings and interior spaces was fueled again in elementary school when I discovered the Home & Garden Network on television. This channel on t.v. let me sit back and take a lightning fast tour through building after building, craft after wonderful craft. The hosts of different shows become superstars of design to me; having the money, time and means to do the kinds of projects that I dreamed of doing. At the library, I started to visit the architecture & design section, checking out books with blue-prints, artistic craft ideas and lot's of pretty colors.
I havn't thought about that building at Bev Bos' Preschool in quite some time, but I know that it is probably one of my fondest memories of a designed object. If my younger self were with me now, I'm sure he would be in awe of the projects that I get to do in Exhibition Design.
