The range is broad — singular objects, installations, rooms, thresholds, architectural commissions. The approach does not change. He begins with what is already there: the material, the place, the people, what each is asking to hold. He works until the answer becomes visible.

Stone and timber are chosen for where they come from and what they carry. Joins are visible. Process is allowed to speak. A piece is finished when it feels inevitable.

He takes what is needed — no more. And he takes what others have set aside. The broken, the abandoned, the forgotten. The beauty was always there. The work lets it be seen.

Dan works alone. Only three to four commissions are taken on each year. The first conversation is a site visit — he listens to the place, meets the people, reads the brief. If the alignment isn't there, the conversation ends with respect and without obligation. If it is, what follows is made in answer.