Tangled Up In Knots

She isn’t finished yet.
I am attempting this year to share process and unfinished photos because I like the realness of it all. I don’t want to idolize the finished project all polished, but the messy, fleetingness of the process. This current iteration could be undone and changed. The final piece is often multiple drafts and edits.

It’s been difficult warping this 💔 metal frame because of the shape/movement of it.

Yesterday I finally finished warping both pieces of the frame, and I actually got to begin playing with the weaving.

My original palette for this piece was going to be an all black weaving with a scalloped outline around it. I finished scalloping half of it and wasn’t fully in love, so I unknotted it. I got some new fibers from yesterday and decided to scrap the palette too.

This current palette has been in the making, but it wasn’t originally intended for this piece.

This year is about realness and stepping out of the square. I want to share the process including my drafts of a piece and my inspirations more. This year I’m not trying to just crank out pieces, or get faster. I want the time, care and intentionality with each piece to be felt. No more creating just to create or fill space. I want y’all to feel like I’m creating a piece from my house to yours. It’s my journey with it and now time for yours. This piece so far as taken multiple changes, she is a journey thus far. Even the frame I’ve been holding onto for 2 years till I felt ready.

Twenty Twenty Four

I haven’t felt like posting the usual year in review. For me, it hasn’t felt right acting like business as usual with the ongoing genocide. 🍉🍉
Last year I began intertwining more activism within my art and shop donating to organizations and posting and sharing. It has been a breath of fresh air for me, mingling my activism into my art and shop more because these two aspects of me have felt divorced or compartmentalized for awhile. That’s a longer story for another day.

In 2024, I aim to fold them together more gracefully and deeply. I have been dreaming and creating pieces, but more I have been thinking what can I do as an artist and small business. This is a conversation I’d love to have with others.

I wanted to also repost and share this thread from I saw a couple weeks ago, and it had been something consistently on my mind for this moment and future.

In 2024, I hope for a ceasefire and the liberation of Palestine. I also hope that we keep the teeth in our art!

🏜 P.s. My online shop is closed from 1/1-1/5. I’m spending some time in Arizona with my Mom and sunshine 🌞

* Photo taken by the White House in 2016/2017

Swapping out a disco ball for a disco ball planter on this s**g hanger.
🖤🪩🤍

Since the beginning the s**g disco ball hangers have been made with a welded ring, so you can swap out the 🪩 for a plant. She’s sturdy!

I decided to play around with a disco ball planter, so you can have the plant and disco all in one.

This piece will be available first this Saturday!!