I’m an artist based in Seattle, WA. I design and create architectural and landscaping models using Lego bricks as a medium.

I grew up in India, and at the time Lego wasn’t available there. As a child, I had just one Lego set that I built with over and over again. I built with their instructions and then built everything my little imagination could come up with. The limitation of having only a few pieces encouraged creativity.

Much later in life an unexpected move across the world gave me an opportunity for a career change. I found Lego again, and my love for designing and building with it re-emerged. I have a passion for architecture as a subject and using Lego, a finite shaped object to create organic looking landscape is very exciting and if executed well, very satisfying. Everything interesting I see in the world, my mind translates into Lego and I want to build it.

I’ll share something I was taught growing up ‘give your full attention to the task at hand. Don’t think of what you’re going to do tomorrow or what you did yesterday.’ Something I’m still striving to learn. Concentrating in this way is almost like meditation and the final result is like an offering to the higher power, the divine. I am able to collect myself and my whole being becomes one with my work.

A couple interviews about myself and my creative process The Brothers Brick Blog, Beyond the Brick TV and Builder Spotlight Bricks LA

My work has also been featured in BrickJournal issue #30 and BrickJournal issue #45 and Hispabrick magazine #19 and some books such as The Greatest Brick Builds: Amazing Creations in LEGO, and Magic Bricks.

I was also a keynote speaker at Oracle Design Week 2020.

Anuradha Pehrson