The most fascinating thing about your work, to me, is its impermanence. The ice always melts. Can you talk about how that element plays into it? Because I can’t think of many other formats that have that fleeting existence embedded in them.
True. Food is another ephemeral art form…but it’s different. Food is a necessity of life, and ice cubes are not.

But I guess that’s why at its heart, Disco Cubes is a photography project. The ice will go away, but if I catch it in the right light at the right moment, we have the image forever. And maybe that’s why it’s so alluring. To know that at one point, it was there and it was beautiful, but that now it no longer exists.

I know creators aren’t supposed to play favorites, but do you have a favorite concept or collaboration that really stood out?
I think my favorite project so far has been shooting the book—somehow it already feels like “the good old days.” I was running everything out of my house at the time, so I had all these mini photo sets dominating the place for a few months, and my book-partner-in-crime-product-stylist Shelby and I just attacked each day as a fun and crazy challenge, shooting most of it on film, which was even more tricky. Ice is tough to shoot, but we came up with a great rhythm and had a lot of fun doing it.

The book consumed my life so much that I had to shelve all my other ideas for a while, and I’m still trying to find time to get back to them. But it also gave me time to think and brainstorm about everything I want to do, and I have a lot of exciting things that I’d love to execute very soon.

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