Woodland Nymph

Posted on Instagram on April 7, 2018

She came to me whispering - in a language of black ink.
The dawn was quick and she demanded my attention - more lines, more tales as I marked the silver sheet for sawing and shaping.
She told me her place is with the trees, where shrubs grow wild and silence is broken only by the song of the wind through the leaves. By the savage birds who are crazy about life.
A Moonstone, she said, because water is magic - and the Moon her Queen.

Starborn

Posted on Instagram on April 3, 2018

Fallen from the Sky a long, lost time ago - celestial ultra speed, cold and then flames, a final deep dive into the Earth.
Teachers of the Ancestors.
Dream-manifesting beings, gift-givers of fire and magic.
The star made iron.
What is up being precipitated down - what is below brought up for everyone to see.
Alchemy.
Chance.
The soul in awe, blooming red.
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Starborn Doll for someone who speaks the ancient magic with the work of her hands.
The galactic traveling phoenix.
Sterling silver, brass, meteorite fragment.

The spirit of what is lost

Posted on Instagram on March 30, 2018

I was lying awake in my bed in the middle of the night. I am not fond of this new thing, this waking up in the little hours of the night.
Anyway.
I started to think - which is one of the reasons why I really don't like this new thing with the sleep.
I started to think about my artworks that were never returned to me by some galleries. My original drawings that I spent so many hours on, that I will never see again - and not because they found a home, but because the galleries owners didn't fulfill their part of the deal, to send my works back to me.
It physically hurts, every time I think about them.
And from there I went to think about other things I lost... Creations lost in the mail. Things from my childhood. And then people. Relationships.
I was growing so sad and anxious...
And I conjured up a Spirit Doll.
The one who takes care of all the things that go missing. I imagine her, collecting all of them in her magical bowl. Keeping them safe. Maybe sending them, through the infinite ways of the universe, to someone who needs them.
I got up very early in the morning and ran to create her, to bring her into our dimension in silver and garnet...

Spirit doll

Posted on Instagram on March 28, 2018

I was lying in bed, looking up at the magical Dolls that Julia of @sacredfamiliar created for me. Reflecting on my journey with them, how they silently supported me, how I grew closer to them, how their magic shaped the vision I have of the world.
I reflected on how those images of feminine beings are important.
We need symbols and amulets, sometimes, to better get in touch with certain part of ourselves, and with the energies we can't see.
And I felt the need to bring this whole "what a Doll is to me" (even the parts I am unable to express in words) in a creation of silver and gemstone.
I fused, filed, soldered, carved. Quite freely, quite trusting luck and instinct.
Because I didn't have a guide, a tutorial, a lesson.
Just another leap of faith, if you will.
And this darling one appeared, hours later.
She is a wink to the first Doll I received from Julia, the Stag Woman that held my hand during some fearful years.
Even though this one has a different energy, less grandmother, definitely wild, fairy ancient ghostly. I like that she looks a bit like a Madonna, but not quite it.
I like that her horns are stylised and maybe they are branches instead.
I like how I can almost hear her transparent laughter as I hold her in my hand.

One twig at a time

Posted on Instagram on March 26, 2018

"One twig at a time. Like a bird making a nest." (Carol Lovekin)
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I happened to talk with a dear friend who is having a rough time. I know depression, I know life-crushing anxiety, I know they have their own process and timing... Still, all of me just wanted to make her better, help her, grab her hand and pull her out of the darkness.
But how?
I know all too well not to use those suggestions that are mostly harmful rather than useful - just think positive, be strong, don't think about it.
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So I promised I would make her an amulet to light her way.
Something to remember her that if you look at all the things you should do and all the things you can't manage to do, all the ugly things your mind shouts at you, it's overwhelming. Paralysing.
That all you can do is to love yourself for what you are right here and right now, and moving gently, one step at the time. One tiny step at the time.
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One twig at the time, like a bird making a nest...
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So here is a little nest, a tiny feather, and a warm tiny heart, a symbol of this graceful, kind, loving wisdom.
Thankyou, my friend, for inspiring this amulet. Thankyou because I need it as well.
Thankyou because we may be able to offer this piece of love to others needing it.
You know who you are 💙