His practice includes architecture, object design, writing and pedagogy and develops both physical and perceptual tools to give individuals greater agency within larger existential threats and systems; these include the ability to sequester carbon, purify water, delimit media connectivity, and slow down time.

Ben's practice engages real-world challenges on both a practical and philosophical level. He is interested in a knowledge that cannot be wrested by force, but one in which observation is preferenced and understood as invitation--a posture from which systems outside of oneself can be more readily accessed. Such a knowledge exists within the nonsense of paradoxes and tautologies at the edge of language, where control is surrender, accidents are planned, and intention is after the fact.

Ben's current research centers on our personal relationship to carbon structure through pyrolysis, a technology that transforms everyday bio-matter and organic waste so it can be used to sequester carbon. Some of his other projects have included, "The Tommy," a long-term, collaborative settlement in the Adirondack mountains, that integrates systems for human survival into off-grid architecture . His first book of philosophy, The Theory of Everything, Abridged, was published by Ugly Duckling Press. It is a combination of text, image, and documentation of his site-specific, performance experiments in the service of his hypothesis that any reconciliation of quantum theory with general relativity has more to do with the language we use to describe the universe, than with the discovery of any extra-dimensional, physical reality. His forthcoming book, Observer Dependent Simultaneity interrogates contemporary notions of mystical knowledge within the exploded syntax of modern form.

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