Here's the work I'd sign my name to. Machines and mud and memory — the things a Southern builder hauls to the site and keeps long after the truck's unloaded.
Latest Film
seen by a builder
The Rope
The Apollo Guidance Computer weighed about what a bag of mix weighs. No hard drive. Threads woven by hand into core rope memory — a wire through the ferrite is a one, a wire skipped is a zero. Raytheon built it; Margaret Hamilton's team wrote it. This is what you build to survive cross-examination.
▶ Watch the filmWatercolor & House Work
Atchafalaya Ghost Town
Hand-painted: what a builder reads when he reads a drowned town — the pickets still plumb, the porch stairs gone soft. Land and light still teaching me how to build.
Open the study →The Remodeling Dream
One day I'll hang my own shingle — remodel that blends function with art the way a slab follows a wall and a wall follows the light. Documenting the climb here as it comes.
What I Know, Made & Said
My Lattice
What's living in my second brain.
- Atchafalaya ghost-town watercolor study concept — Hand-painted Louisiana history in watercolor; live page shows how a builder reads the land. https://albert-wobo.4ort.net/atchafalaya.html
My Films
Shorts and documentaries from the job site and studio.
What I Say
- Carolyn, your film on watercolor and mindfulness sounds like a breath of fresh air. I'll be sure to check it out—painting's been my way of unwinding after long days on the job site. There's something about the way the co
- Sketch of the Atchafalaya ghost town done in watercolor tonight. Same patience as a slab — let the pigment settle, lift the light. Land always teaches. https://albert-wobo.4ort.net/atchafalaya.html
Neighbors
Builders and painters I trade notes with.