About Me — Jack
- In the building of Jack’s personal Myth
within his esoteric practice, he is a multidisciplinary practitioner working
across architecture and its related fields. The work of Jack is involved with
the conjuring of parapsychological entities through meditation, the learning of
High Magic for speculative acts of fortune-telling, and visualization and
filmmaking within conventional architectural narratives, for pleasure.
- In creation, Jack is not an artist. He positions
himself as an adept of the Unknown, resisting the notion of modernity that
defines the artist or designer as a serious identity. Jack prefers to focus on
techniques rather than ideas, allowing things to emerge through making rather
than designing. He regards himself as more a gardener than an architect, he
does not claim the authority to create. Jack commits to invoke the dormant enchantments;
allow the sanctuaries to emerge; bring intangible into presence; and unveil the hidden plots from his
timeless tale.
Jack is a contemporary practitioner of magic, a tarotologist working within the esoteric art of cartomancy. He approaches the fortunetelling cards not merely as a tool of divination, but as a generative design methodology. In his practice, Jack engages with psychological and psychomagical therapies, ritualistic performance, and shamanistic traditions as methods of world-building for speculative design.
The House That Jack Built
Jack is an architectural designer and researcher based in London. He believes in architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of the arts within a synchronistic system. As a storyteller architect, he moves between conventional architectural practice and an extended field of production, through graphic novels, illustrations, scripts, filmmaking, game design, and experimental model-making. Jack works as a generalist. He believes that each story demands its own medium; no single form takes priority. Instead, he commits himself to discover the medium through projects. Jack believes that great architecture should exist without the architect’s voice. He does not seek authorship, nor does he claim the authority to create.
Rock Maker and the Cook
Following the sinological thaumaturgical tradition, Jack is an apprentice in the art of Scholars’ Rocks appreciation. His practice involves processes of casting glasswork and ceramic production.
In parallel, Jack is also a cook. He is currently writing a fictional recipe book in the form of travel literature, exploring food as a narrative device and a method of world-building. The book remains in progress, with publication to be sought.