About

I've always had a hard time choosing a label. Maker. Creator. Artist. Designer. Inventor. Builder. Founder. All of them feel almost fitting but not perfect. I am someone who creates. Yet for most of my career I have done so privately. Now I am creating in the open.

I'm drawn to work where you have to invent a product or process to make the desired result possible. Where the design and engineering are inseparable from the output. Building the thing that makes the thing is often more interesting to me than the end result.

Today I'm building Slower Objects, a set of tactile artifacts designed to facilitate intentional thinking. Three surfaces, three balls, nine combinations of material, texture, and sound. What started as a personal need for analog focus and became a product rooted in the belief that we all could use more time away from screens. Out of that same work emerged a vision for a low-tech handheld gaming device I'm calling Momentum. While that project is still early it feels alive with potential.

In between Slower Objects and Momentum I'm reopening a few art projects I abandoned over a decade ago, starting with the Tube Mirrors Redux series. They've drawn enough questions over the years that it felt wrong not to give them new life.

In the background I work with artists, makers, and creators who run their own businesses, helping them automate the stuff that isn't the craft. I know the tension firsthand. You start a business to make things and suddenly half your day is invoicing, DMs, bookkeeping, and shipping logistics. That tension pushed me deep into AI as a practical way to reclaim time for the work that actually matters. Most of the systems I offer clients started as something I built for myself.

All of this stems from a belief that the act of creation is our collective higher calling, the truest expression of what it means to be human, and a gift that deserves to be shared.

If any of this sounds interesting, I'm always happy to talk. jack@jackhenson.com