A journalist and academic called OOIEE from Macon, Georgia. Mary and Andrew were moving back to Saint Paul and were interested in consulting about retaining walls. The conversation spun out and turned into a complete reimagining of the home and spaces. Along the way, we realized the client’s brother is Fritz Haeg, an artist we love and have worked with in the past. Sometimes it’s so easy to see the poetics and magic in the unfolding of being. Motion is where things happen. Located in the city but surrounded by woods, we were able to make the space larger, more organized, while simultaneously creating a more spiritually nuanced and quiet, private aesthetic.