A hand-crafted stream winding through the garden

CHRISTOPHER McCULLOH / 02 / ART & MAKING

Physical / digital

MAKE SOMETHING. SEE WHERE IT GOES.

BEYOND THE INTERFACE / 02 / ART & MAKING

The world is
my other canvas.

Away from the keyboard, I’m still making things. Music, paint, wood, and a little dirt under the fingernails. Different materials. The same curiosity.

FIELD NOTES / SELECTED MOMENTS

AN ONGOING EXPLORATION
A hand-dug backyard stream
01 / A STREAM OF MY OWNLANDSCAPING / GARDENING
Christopher’s children playing guitars
02 / PASS IT ONMUSIC / FAMILY
A carving in progress
03 / FINDING THE FORMCARVING / WHITTLING
A piano meetup Christopher organized
04 / ROOM FOR A LITTLE MUSICPIANO / COMMUNITY
A rainbow over the garden
05 / THE LONG WAY TO MAKE SOMETHINGGARDEN / ORCHARD
A painted icon
06 / PATIENCE IN THE DETAILSDRAWING / PAINTING
A group gathered with their finished landscape paintings
07 / A LITTLE COLOR, TOGETHERPAINTING / COMMUNITY
A watercolor of a pink and blue sky above palm trees and a distant shoreline
08 / COLOR ABOVE THE HORIZONWATERCOLOR
A white ceramic fermentation crock with blue stripes, used to make sauerkraut
09 / GOOD THINGS TAKE TIMEFERMENTATION / SAUERKRAUT

THE PRACTICE

Many ways to make.

01 / CREATE

Music

Guitar, piano, folk singing, and church choir. Six years of piano lessons became a lasting love of sitting down and playing.

02 / CREATE

Land & water

A stream designed and dug by hand, a small orchard, and a vegetable garden. Building a place to explore, right in the backyard.

03 / CREATE

Wood & paint

Drawing, painting, carving, whittling, and furniture-making. Working with real materials is its own kind of problem-solving.

04 / CREATE

Fermentation

Making sauerkraut in a ceramic crock. Another way to work with simple materials and let time do its part.