With Anni and Josef Albers, collaboration does not announce itself through shared objects or joint signatures. It appears instead through parallel concentration. Two practices, rigorously separate in material, moving toward the same questions with extraordinary discipline.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but the schools I attended — Woodstock Country School and later Bennington College — were direct descendants of the Bauhaus experiment. Each believed that art was not a subject but a way of understanding the world. The lineage that ran from Weimar to North Carolina to Vermont shaped not only my education but the way I’ve made art ever since.