Reactive Patinas™

Reactive Patinas™ defines the language of reactive staining on mineral surfaces — a four-volume body of work shaping this field.

Reactive Patinas™ — The Art & Chemistry of Coloring Cement

A comprehensive study of reactive color on cementitious surfaces, examining how mineral substrates, moisture, and chemistry interact to form permanent color. Written for artists, architects, and makers, this volume documents techniques, formulations, and visual references drawn from decades of foundry and decorative concrete practice.

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Reactive Gypsum™ — Coloring & Transforming Plaster

An exploration of reactive staining on gypsum-based materials, focusing on plaster as a fast, responsive mineral surface. This book traces the behavior of reactive salts, binders, and sealers in low-mass substrates, revealing a parallel language of color distinct from cement and stone.

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The Third Path™ — Laminated Fiber Cement

A material philosophy for surface, structure, and restraint.

This book reframes fiber cement not as an industrial product, but as a designed composite system governed by particle geometry, water history, lamination logic, and surface intent. Rather than optimizing recipes or additives, The Third Path builds understanding from first principles—treating sand as a spatial organizer, water as a temporal condition, and fibers as navigational fields within a layered matrix.

Through studio practice, field-tested diagrams, and material law, the book defines an alternative path between fragile ornament and industrial excess. It establishes a language for thin, durable cement work where structure and surface are inseparable—and where performance emerges from restraint, not complexity.

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Reactive Paper™ — The RSE Manual

A visual and experimental introduction to chromatography and reactive color on paper. Developed as an educational and exploratory manual, this work presents paper as a reactive surface, documenting bloom formation, capillary movement, and time- based color emergence.