I have a compulsion to make things, and the force cannot be stopped.
I've been living with a compulsive desire to manifest ideas into my physical reality for my entire life. As a young child, I understood that my hands were my favorite part of being alive and embodied on Earth. They have always been my primary resource for transmitting and receiving information from the world; each palm like a brain, each finger an eyeball. They gave me a certain feeling of freedom very early on, as I realized that regardless of circumstance, I was able to do and to make and to have the things that I wanted with some manual manipulation and creative elbow grease.
My work here on Etsy is the stuff I've made for people to wear. I don't claim to be a part of any particular style tribe or follow any fashion trends or doctrines; I make the things I like. The work is heavily influenced by the supply materials I source (mostly natural, or vintage), the far-out collection of early 70s metaphysical literature that I obsessively hunt/gather/consume, indigenous style statements, cosmic mythology, cryptozoology, astrobiology, and my futuristic Aquarian desire to keep tweaking the things around me. The ideas always come; I don't have to summon the muse because she never leaves (although occasionally she takes very long naps).
While it is not the easiest, or most profitable way to run a handmade, internet-based business, the vast majority of the things I make are one of a kind. This is the most satisfying method of making for me, as repeating the same design over and over creates a feeling of boredom deep in my soul. Boredom is my enemy. So for the sake of my mental health, creative inertia, energetic flow and spiritual buoyancy, I keep making different things. Occasionally I have a request to repeat a design, and that's very flattering and I'm happy to do it when the materials permit.
Getting involved with selling my work on Etsy changed my life. This platform, and the forces that move through it, defied and dissolved a deeply held system of limiting beliefs about possibilities that I carried within me for many years. Very possibly lifetimes. I am continually humbled and elated by the opportunity to make things and to reach people and to be myself (a truly wild concept in our modern world!) and then to sell those things, and keep the cycle going.
Thanks for hanging out and reading about me. If you feel like making things too, you should.
