Happiness
Architecture as Camera
Art + Design Studio
Specialization
MLL ATELIER specializes in strategic future-visioning for environmental technology innovation, including prototyped concept designs from the future for pioneering missions, products, projects and experiences.
Statement of Practice
Bloomvism: A Movement
I invent the architecture of tomorrow. My creative process is the vehicle by which I travel to test my ideas and visualize their evolution. From such odysseys, I return with animated film, moving image, and narrative sculpture as artifacts that tell visual stories from the future about how environments can improve life in ways never imagined. I invent at all scales: from small tools, to buildings, to cities. Exhibited in museums, galleries, art fairs, academic conferences, and publications internationally, these visions are vibrant, visionary, and (r)evolutionary.
When we reach for what we can become, we see better ways to solve for what we have not yet been. For this reason, I architect the future as an art, through a style and philosophy I call ‘Bloomvism’ — where form fuels growth. With science-fiction thinking, I unlock architectural futures at the nexus of neuroscience, emerging technology, and nature to reimagine how we, as a humanity, design for our own perception, and subsequent evolution. Thus, each of my creations is made to help grow and actualize human potential.
Since the earliest days of my architectural design education, I have been inspired and influenced by the Swiss-born German artist, Paul Klee. His teaching that “movement underlies the growth and decay of all things” has deep influence on my philosophy and practice of art and design. As he writes how “a line is a dot that went for a walk”, he teaches how a point can grow to become a line, and how a line can grow to become a column, and how a column can grow to become a wall. These early concepts still hold as I continue to ideate projects that focus on transformation and evolution.
For me now, movement is threefold: first, it is a physical action; second, it is a collective push toward a vision; and third, it is the stirring of the soul that ultimately fuels the previous two. With movement, we grow or decay. It is my hope that through my ‘time-travel’ creations, I use movement to inspire, nurture, and innovate beneficial growth that uplifts our world. I make visions to help humanity 'bloom'.
