Talk about Tyler, where he grew up and how he found his way to sculpture and design.

Talk about how Tyler started making toys out of aluminum foil and rocks as a kid because it was all he and his family could afford. Talk about fluidity and the shapes of Tyler’s Art being inspired by water where he grew up in LA swimming in swamps.

Talk about how no one in his network had a way to bend aluminum the way he needed, so he built a hydraulic press from scratch in order to shape the aluminum.

For one thing, the colors are much more distinct in SoHo. They’re brighter. Perhaps that’s a reflection on the people living here. But for many of the cast-iron buiildings that give SoHo it’s unmistakable character, the reason for their bright coloring is actually pretty obvious: whenever you construct anything from wrought iron, it’s going to look like, well, wrought iron.

Talk about how each piece of wood is unique, the process of choosing the specific boards, and his technique of the scallop pattern in his work.