Alicia Hauff Studio

Remembering who we are as terrestrial beings happens in all sorts of ways. One tangible way I try to bridge ancestral ways with modern life is to reanimate our existence.

And that means getting to know our neighbors. Not as things, parts of a flattened, reductionist worldview, but the vibrant one that we’re a part of.

Get to know the textures of place—the soundscape, scents, and visual changes over time. The beings who come and go, and those who stay in place, teaching us seasons and cycles.

I’ve curated my holiday offerings, some of them shared here.

As a super-small business owner with dreams of work that can do big, beautiful things, I’ve had my ear to the ground, listening for what it really is that I’m doing.

I’m calling us home, back down to earth. 🫶🏻

Slide 2: Assorted can as prints from series work through to the owls (day raptors en route!) framed and unframed

Slide 3: Mini Originals - wildflowers and a few birds 🌼

Slide 4: Assorted ecoprint and abstract collage landscape ornaments 🏞️

Slide 5: Wild ink sets made this September (& Curios a year old, going strong) 🎨

Slide 6: The new easel calendar (and refills!) 🗓️

Slide 7: The new wall calendar (and refills) 🗓️

Slide 8: Stationery variety packs, a perennial favorite 💌

Slide 9: Wild ink sketch, a few new ones in the shop

With a big move and new work this month into December, I won’t be at any holiday markets. I appreciate the support and wish you true peace and rest!

xx Alicia

“Snowy Owl, Otherworldly and Ancient” original 🤍

This regal owl rose to fame in film and is one of the few birds that can even get ‘non-birders’ to come for a look. Male Snowy Owls are darker and more marked when younger but become mostly white as adults. Adult females retain their dark markings. All Snowy Owls have catlike yellow eyes. Harry Potter’s Hedwig was, in fact, played by a male Snowy Owl! While Great Gray owls are the tallest, Snowy Owls are the heaviest North American owls and have been represented in European cave paintings.

Whether the tundra or the Great Plains, an airport field or beach dunes, Snowy Owls like treeless places and wide-open spaces. Because they often sit right on the ground to hunt, they prefer rolling terrain where they can find a vantage to survey the surrounding area. On their wintering grounds, they’ll also perch atop a fencepost, hay bale, building, telephone pole, grain elevator—anywhere with a good view. At their latitudes, Snowy Owls hunt in nearly 24-hour daylight, and their thick plumage keeps them cozy.

Snowy Owls mainly eat small mammals, particularly lemmings, which, at times on the tundra, may be all these birds eat. Sometimes, they’ll switch to ptarmigan and waterfowl. How many young they raise each year depends on the lemming population. If it’s a booming lemming year, they may raise double or triple the number of young! Males will also place hunted lemmings around the entire nest for the female and young to eat. Snowy owls nest on the ground in a depression the female creates. They usually reuse the nest for many years.

The Snowy Owl population probably rises and falls with the population cycles of its prey.

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