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This work is about building sacred space in Black communities
not monuments,
but moments.
It’s about motion,
about gathering under something made with care.
Pavilions.
Circles instead of corners.
Places to think.
To breathe.
To simply be.
But I can’t turn away from the extraction.
From what’s been taken
our thought,
our art,
our movement,
our sound,
our joy.
All stripped, repackaged,
and sold back to us.
What once lived in the everyday
now sits behind a price tag.
So I keep asking:
What’s my work as a Designer?
How do I use architecture
to hold our stories,
to guard our grace,
to make freedom feel permanent?
This is about the labor of care.
The work of returning value
to the places that taught us how to love.

Credits
Co-Director / DP: Nash Pearson | @nash.pearson
Co-Director: Nick Beeba | @nickbeeba
Producer: Nick Beeba | @nickbeeba
Production Company: Possi | @possilife
Gimbal Operator: Justin Brown | @justinscottbro
Colorist: Ben Cowan | @bentcowan
Editor: Nash Pearson | @nash.pearson
Audio Mix: Evan George | @evngeo
Creative director @studioker @mosesbread72 If you’d like to bring this kind of space to your community, DM me.. Built by @dolan_gc

This project took so long, and every moment of that time shaped how I think about architecture, care, and community. Constructed entirely from Cross Laminated Timber, Night Chapel is an experiment in weight and light, mass and breath. CLT’s strength and warmth allow the structure to be both monumental and mobile, a paradox I wanted to explore. Sacred spaces are so often imagined as permanent, heavy, immovable. Night Chapel resists that. It asks: what happens when sacred architecture can move, when it meets people where they are rather than waiting for them to come?
The chapel organizes space for care, dialogue, solitude, ritual, and gathering. I see it less as an object and more as a spatial strategy: a choreography of belonging, a structure of invitation, a vessel for community. Its form and materiality are meant to engage not just the body, but also memory, emotion, and social spirit.
At its core, this work is about mental health, healing, and spatial justice. I believe architecture can hold more than walls and roofs. It can carry memory, hold grief, invite joy, and offer a place for people to come back to themselves. Night Chapel is designed to listen as much as it speaks, to be present as much as it is built.
Night Chapel opens this week at Seattle’s @naamnw Northwest African American Museum, running September 19 through December 2025, with programming led by local leaders, creatives, and cultural practitioners. This is the first work of my Building Motions initiative, an ongoing exploration of how architecture can move , heal, and serve.
Special thanks to the Softwood Lumber Board for their support in making this project possibl

This capsule collection, created in collaboration with Lexus and Dilo for Miami Art Week, draws its essence from a reverence for craftsmanship and the belief that objects can hold memory, spirituality, and sacredness. Titled Synesthesia, the work explores the interplay of sensory experiences—how the act of seeing can evoke sound, or how scent can conjure imagery. This sensory dialogue resonates with Lexus’ core value of Takumi Craft, a philosophy rooted in the mastery of Japanese craftsmanship, where precision and a profound respect for materials converge.

In crafting this piece, I sought out artisans whose dedication mirrors the discipline of Lexus’ Takumi masters, individuals who devote decades to perfecting their craft. Each element of the candle, from its amber glass vessel to its carefully blended materials, reflects this commitment to excellence. Just as every Lexus vehicle embodies a meticulous attention to detail, this collection transforms simple materials into vessels that transcend their physical form, becoming carriers of light, memory, and the spiritual.

The amber glass vessels amplify the interplay of flame and reflection, inviting contemplation. Their repetition speaks to a meditative rhythm, much like the design language of Lexus vehicles, where recurring elements are refined to achieve harmony. Each vessel becomes a container of sacredness, where the flicker of a flame evokes both the ephemeral and the eternal.

By centering the flame as a visual and spiritual metaphor, this work bridges innovation and heritage, technology and human touch. It encapsulates how an object, much like a Lexus, can move beyond function to become an experience—one that engages the senses and resonates deeply with the human spirit. Through this collaboration, we honor the mastery of craft as a pathway to connection, emotion, and transcendence.

This capsule collection, created in collaboration with Lexus and Dilo for Miami Art Week, draws its essence from a reverence for craftsmanship and the belief that objects can hold memory, spirituality, and sacredness. Titled Synesthesia, the work explores the interplay of sensory experiences—how the act of seeing can evoke sound, or how scent can conjure imagery. This sensory dialogue resonates with Lexus’ core value of Takumi Craft, a philosophy rooted in the mastery of Japanese craftsmanship, where precision and a profound respect for materials converge.

In crafting this piece, I sought out artisans whose dedication mirrors the discipline of Lexus’ Takumi masters, individuals who devote decades to perfecting their craft. Each element of the candle, from its amber glass vessel to its carefully blended materials, reflects this commitment to excellence. Just as every Lexus vehicle embodies a meticulous attention to detail, this collection transforms simple materials into vessels that transcend their physical form, becoming carriers of light, memory, and the spiritual.

The amber glass vessels amplify the interplay of flame and reflection, inviting contemplation. Their repetition speaks to a meditative rhythm, much like the design language of Lexus vehicles, where recurring elements are refined to achieve harmony. Each vessel becomes a container of sacredness, where the flicker of a flame evokes both the ephemeral and the eternal.

By centering the flame as a visual and spiritual metaphor, this work bridges innovation and heritage, technology and human touch. It encapsulates how an object, much like a Lexus, can move beyond function to become an experience—one that engages the senses and resonates deeply with the human spirit. Through this collaboration, we honor the mastery of craft as a pathway to connection, emotion, and transcendence.

This capsule collection, created in collaboration with Lexus and Dilo for Miami Art Week, draws its essence from a reverence for craftsmanship and the belief that objects can hold memory, spirituality, and sacredness. Titled Synesthesia, the work explores the interplay of sensory experiences—how the act of seeing can evoke sound, or how scent can conjure imagery. This sensory dialogue resonates with Lexus’ core value of Takumi Craft, a philosophy rooted in the mastery of Japanese craftsmanship, where precision and a profound respect for materials converge.

In crafting this piece, I sought out artisans whose dedication mirrors the discipline of Lexus’ Takumi masters, individuals who devote decades to perfecting their craft. Each element of the candle, from its amber glass vessel to its carefully blended materials, reflects this commitment to excellence. Just as every Lexus vehicle embodies a meticulous attention to detail, this collection transforms simple materials into vessels that transcend their physical form, becoming carriers of light, memory, and the spiritual.

The amber glass vessels amplify the interplay of flame and reflection, inviting contemplation. Their repetition speaks to a meditative rhythm, much like the design language of Lexus vehicles, where recurring elements are refined to achieve harmony. Each vessel becomes a container of sacredness, where the flicker of a flame evokes both the ephemeral and the eternal.

By centering the flame as a visual and spiritual metaphor, this work bridges innovation and heritage, technology and human touch. It encapsulates how an object, much like a Lexus, can move beyond function to become an experience—one that engages the senses and resonates deeply with the human spirit. Through this collaboration, we honor the mastery of craft as a pathway to connection, emotion, and transcendence.

This capsule collection, created in collaboration with Lexus and Dilo for Miami Art Week, draws its essence from a reverence for craftsmanship and the belief that objects can hold memory, spirituality, and sacredness. Titled Synesthesia, the work explores the interplay of sensory experiences—how the act of seeing can evoke sound, or how scent can conjure imagery. This sensory dialogue resonates with Lexus’ core value of Takumi Craft, a philosophy rooted in the mastery of Japanese craftsmanship, where precision and a profound respect for materials converge.

In crafting this piece, I sought out artisans whose dedication mirrors the discipline of Lexus’ Takumi masters, individuals who devote decades to perfecting their craft. Each element of the candle, from its amber glass vessel to its carefully blended materials, reflects this commitment to excellence. Just as every Lexus vehicle embodies a meticulous attention to detail, this collection transforms simple materials into vessels that transcend their physical form, becoming carriers of light, memory, and the spiritual.

The amber glass vessels amplify the interplay of flame and reflection, inviting contemplation. Their repetition speaks to a meditative rhythm, much like the design language of Lexus vehicles, where recurring elements are refined to achieve harmony. Each vessel becomes a container of sacredness, where the flicker of a flame evokes both the ephemeral and the eternal.

By centering the flame as a visual and spiritual metaphor, this work bridges innovation and heritage, technology and human touch. It encapsulates how an object, much like a Lexus, can move beyond function to become an experience—one that engages the senses and resonates deeply with the human spirit. Through this collaboration, we honor the mastery of craft as a pathway to connection, emotion, and transcendence.

Study Session: Repetition

Is There Any Room (For Negus)?, Studio Kër, 2023

Study Session: Repetition

Is There Any Room?, Studio Kër, 2023

Study Session: Repetition

Is There Any Room?, Studio Kër, 2023

We Gotta Get Back to the Crib” is not just an exhibition @studioker ; it’s a homecoming, a reclamation, a reimagining of what it means to hold space for Black futures. Years in the making, this collection marks a pivotal moment—a crossroads between where I’ve been and where I’m going. It’s a meditation on structure and memory, on how the past is never just the past, but a living, breathing archive that shapes the forms we create.

This work reaches back to touch the joy, the pain, the everyday moments of Black life—the cradle of childhood, the wisdom of family, the weight and the wonder of legacy. It’s an invocation of the materiality that carries our stories, that elevates the mundane to the sacred, channeling culture into every choice, every form, every gesture. This is about finding agency in the familiar, in the fragments, and using them to build something that speaks to our collective future. It’s a reminder that in our hands, even the most overlooked things hold the power to transform.

Study Session: Geometry and Form

Urban Decay, Studio Kër, 2023

Study Session: Geometry and Form

Urban Decay, Studio Kër, 2023

Study Session: Geometry and Form

Urban Decay, Studio Kër - for Worldwide Walls, 2023

Study Session: Geometry and Form

Public Display, Studio Kër, 2023

Study Session: Geometry and Form

Public Display, Studio Kër, 2023