Healer

We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
— Joseph Campbell

Healer Pendant I.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver and yellow agate.


Brazil

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
— Osho

Brazil (Atlas Series).
Acrylic on paper, 2019.
10.62" by 12.79" (27 cm by 32.5 cm).


United States

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
— Rumi

United States (Atlas Series).
Acrylic on paper, 2019.
10.62" by 12.79" (27 cm by 32.5 cm).


United States

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
— Haruki Murakami

United States (Atlas Series).
Acrylic on paper, 2019.
10.62" by 12.79" (27 cm by 32.5 cm).


Tribe

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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
— Seth Godin

Tribe (Atlas Series).
Acrylic on paper, 2019.
10.62" by 12.79" (27 cm by 32.5 cm).


Little Girl

Message to my younger self:

You can dress however you want

You can play however you want

You can love anyone you want

You can create anything you want

You can fly (it’s called running!)

You are a maker and a dream shaker

Stay full of yourself (no need to shrink to fit in)

Don’t wait for permission to do or be anything!

Follow what sparks you up (you will enjoy it and be good at it!)

If something or someone drains you, thank it and leave it

You are a force of nature, trust yourself.


Indonesia

Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?
— Sylvia Plath

Indonesia (Atlas Series).
Acrylic on paper, 2019.
10.62" by 12.79" (27 cm by 32.5 cm).


French Indochina

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
— Amedeo Modigliani

French Indochina (Atlas Series).
Acrylic on paper, 2019.
10.62" by 12.79" (27 cm by 32.5 cm).


China

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
— Ram Dass

China (Atlas Series).
Acrylic on paper, 2019.
10.62" by 12.79" (27 cm by 32.5 cm).


Integration

I invoke you, spider. Weaver of webs, creator and destroyer. Help me integrate all aspects of my self. Show me how to be whole.

Integration pendant.
Handmade with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver.
This Thursday in my online shop.


Crystal Creature

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
— David Attenborough

Crystal Creature ring.
Handmade with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Available this Thursday in my online shop.

(I can cut this ring to fit any size between 5 and 10.5).


Inside V

Deep rivers run quiet.
— Haruki Murakami

Inside IV

I am like Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde. When I fear, I feel closed off. I guard myself, shut doors, distrust everyone. I become rigid.

When I trust, I feel, I love, I explore. Everything becomes rich, unknown, exciting!

Life: help me let go of the tightness. There is nothing within me to guard against. Let me stay open.


Inside III

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
— C. S. Lewis

Inside II

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
— Robert Frost