Four issues in, I’ve started noticing something about the people we have the honor of featuring in BRICKA. They don’t arrive at the LEGO medium empty-handed. Most come to the brick already fluent in something else — a craft, or a discipline, or their own way of seeing — and they bring that uniqueness with them.
Jeff Friesen brings a photographer’s command of light and a perspective borrowed from Japanese woodblock prints, then uses both to turn microscale cities into places you want to wander. For Katherine Duclos it’s color theory — she treats the brick as modular pigment and lets harmony decide where your eye travels. Charleen Jones had to invent hers from scratch: a set of small practices, built brick by brick, that helped her heal and that she now teaches to others. Eric Parsons arrives with a super fan’s obsessive eye for the gritty, patched-together corners of the Star Wars universe and makes it feel real. And Ryo Tomita works with a storyteller’s patience, staging scenes that hold the subtle drama of an ordinary day.
None of this comes in a box of bricks with instructions. It comes from putting the brick next to the thing you already love, and seeing what happens.
Sam Aquillano
Founder & Editor
