Adrian

My work lives at the intersection of craft, language, and presentation — a barber, a poet, a model, and chess player— each practice informing the others. As a barber I shape presence; hair becomes gesture. I value structure and precision, but also the small liberties that make a cut feel honest and lived-in. A haircut should be legible from memory and adaptable to a life in motion. Poetry trains me to notice inflection and cadence — the pauses between words and the gestures between glances — and to carve space for what’s unsaid. 

My verses explore identity, labor, and the quiet architecture of everyday rituals. As a model I study posture, proportion, and the ways clothing and grooming alter perception. Modeling teaches me how presentation communicates: a tilt of the chin, the fall of a collar, the way light catches a jawline. Whether I am standing at the mirror, the page, or in front of a lens, my intention remains the same: to shape and to bear witness, to cut away what hides the truth, and to hold the room for whatever story wants to emerge.

“I cut hair the way I keep a poem: attentive to rhythm”