About
Brandon D. Garrett.
Maker. Voice. Witness.
The work is the point. The story holds the work. What follows is the short version of how a bench, a record, and a room came to share the same name.
Portrait — Mode B / forthcoming
The studio sits at the meeting of three crafts.
Visionary BG is the studio of Brandon D. Garrett. Three things come out of it: meditation benches built one at a time, vocal records released under Activation, and visual work from the room itself.
The throughline is practice. A bench is a place to sit. A song is a frequency to sit inside of. The studio is the room where both get made by the same pair of hands.
Nothing here is mass produced. Nothing here is trying to be clever. The point is to make the kind of object and the kind of sound that you keep, that you pass on, that holds up in a quiet room.
What the studio makes.
Three disciplines, one room, one set of standards.
The benches
Hand-built meditation benches. Walnut, cedar, reclaimed oak. A fixed catalog and a custom path for the ones that need to be specific to a body and a room.
See the catalog →The records
Vocal records released under Activation. Built around held tones, repetition, and the human voice without ornament. Made to be sat with, not background.
Open the listening room →The studio archive
Photographs, short films, and pieces from the room itself. The visual record of how the work gets made.
Visit the archive →Lineage
"Go within. Our power is within."
The studio works in a tradition older than the studio. The bench is not the practice. The record is not the practice. The room is not the practice. The practice is yours, and the work is here to hold space for it.
Working with the studio.
For commissions, press, or a question that does not have an obvious home, write to the studio directly.