“It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.”  

—  Eudora Welty

We practice in a place of contrasts: lush, green springs and hot, harsh summers; palpable needs and rich, fertile soils; systemic inequities and inspiring struggles for human dignity. In Mississippi’s depressed economy, funds to build are rare and often inadequate for the needs, but Mississippi is culturally rich. Its storytellers are world renowned. Its musicians have shaped American music. The State is and has been a sort of ground zero for the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, setting examples that have matured our entire country and continuing to reveal that the work is still grossly undone.

Here, where things seem hardest, design can have an impact. We challenge ourselves to expose needs and to design strategies to heal. To build upon the beauty of this place. To uplift the human condition and give honor to its people. 

We seek to embody human values that are common to us all, but the work is of our place, in our environment, in its storms, in the hot humid climate, in the expansive soils, in the depressed economy, in the culture, and in our hope for the public good.