Usually Unusual is the personal archive and creative practice of Andrew Ellis. Andrew has a BA in Linguistics and an MFA in Design and, through a series of reasonable but questionable decisions, has spent the past two decades moving between food, design, writing, photography, mapping, and the many strange spaces in between. He’s lived and traveled across Cambodia, France, Chile, and the United States, collecting along the way a persistent curiosity about how people make sense of places, cultures, and one another.

A period living and cooking at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, where he served as tenzo (head cook), deepened his interest in food as a practice of attention, care, and simplicity. That sensibility continues to shape his work, whether he's cooking a meal, photographing a landscape, making a map, or simply trying to understand something that caught his attention.

Usually Unusual is, at its heart, a place for following those curiosities: field notes, projects, photographs, films, recipes, maps, and other attempts to look a little more closely at the world. Andrew also runs Move First, a functional fitness practice in Naples, Florida.