Jim Larson (b. 1994) is an artist and a builder. He grew up in the Granite State playing in old quarries and working with traditional craftspeople. He approaches space as something we do not passively occupy, but actively produce.

As an artist, he works with an understanding that our community (and its architecture) should be continuously edited, maintained, and rebuilt by those who work within it. Structures (and the traditions surrounding them) are not fixed; they are adaptive and shaped over time through use and through necessity. Larson’s work interrogates the stratification of design and labor, and alternatively it insists on a direct connection between the imagined and the built, the hand and its products.

Specifically, Larson engages stone as a volumetric and variable material: a humble piece of the ground, carrying mass and irregularity, capable of both occupying and defining space. Through its variability, stone demands conversational making and carving; it resists standardization and instead foregrounds the human decisions required in its use.