What would be most indicative of me? My birthplace? Berlin, Germany. Also the place I went to school til I graduated tenth grade, only to leave and take a beeline to...

Japan (Saitama, anyone?anyone? Take a stab and miss Tokyo westerly by an hour, and you'll be spot-on). My mother's heritage and so half-ways mine. A lot more time to give up swimming and run than in Berlin, and so I did that for a year, only to move to...

Beijing. Just cuz. No heritage, no history, but a heck of an interesting place to live nonetheless. Who wouldn't want to try and keep their two labs from barking in the old town? All the while watching the old ladies take their quasi-dog-more-like-cats out for a romp on the knoll of grass outside the brand spanking (Olympic-ready, even) new subway station.

But does that really say anything about me? Kinda. Maybe. Most of all, though, it merely presents a starting point for questions.

What interests me is the intersection of culture in heritage, environment, and education.

Therefore art. Therefore design.