Current Projects

My current research projects have two primary areas of focus:

• A study of tool-making, craft, industrial design, and design education, and how this may relate to the rise of consciousness in Homo sapiens, and the transition of humans to Homo faber and Homo techne; part of this research has been funded by a Fulbright Scholar grant

• A philosophy of science investigation on the role of empirical methods in studying the nature of time, the structure of spacetime, and temporality (our sense of time's passage), for a book under contract with the publisher De Gruyter

Current artistic projects comprise the following:

• In the visual arts, a project that looks at digital mapping and way-finding as a commentary on human wanderings and migration

• Also in the visual arts, a series of artworks, entitled "canned art", which uses recycled materials to create specialised scenes and visual puns, with a nod to the artist Joseph Cornell

• An investigation via a set of experimental designed objects concerning "alternate" worlds”

• In music, a soul single released in 2025, a five-song EP that was released in the spring of 2023, and continued work in electronica and funk/electronica