Denver folks, go peek our work at Sub Rosa Mercantile, a lovely general store in the Sunnyside neighborhood run by Madeleine, who is awesome. We made her some special Colorado-themed strands, inspired by the state that was our home for one rotation around the sun.… Read More
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Holiday Hustle: Renegade Seattle
Hey y’all, the holiday season is ‘a comin, and we’re jazzed to say that we’ll be participating in Renegade Craft’s Seattle Holiday Fair! Renegade started in our old neighbor, good ol’ Chicago, and has grown to include shows in cool-ass cities across the U.S… Read More
A dark and quiet place
I’ve had 7 studio spaces in my life.
1. The floor of my teenage bedroom, half-way in the closet with a shade-less lamp. I would spill paint on the carpet and cut it out with scissors (sorry mom.) I would work after everyone else went to bed, staying up through the wee hours of the morning drawing not very good surrealist pictures and pasting together maybe-pretty-dope-still collages.… Read More
Fiber Web
The strangeness of materials, how molecules get moved around and re-stirred and stuck with other molecules to make new things that have new jobs that take up space and perform certain duties. Paper is trees and glass is sand and a human hair is stronger than steel but buildings are not made out of hair beams.… Read More
New Stockist: Hauswitch Home + Healing
We’re excited to say that New England folks can now get our lanterns in person at Hauswitch Home + Healing in Salem, Mass. Woo! Hauswitch is run by Erin, who, in addition to running a brick and mortar focused on good vibe-y home stuff, makes really rad magic kits for the home and does design consultations to help people heal the energy in their houses.… Read More
Night night
Got a bunch of night lights a million years ago, with the intention of making some cutwork studies. Got around to it, into the result. Layers of balsa, which is flimsy and soft and easy to cut, a xerox transfer I made in my basement in college, and some handmade paper I found in a trailer here on our land.… Read More
The Evil Eye
Hoppin on dat eyeball train. Lanterns to protect you from the evil eye, a curse brought on you by a nasty stare from the curser. I like the spookiness of them, and that they show up in folklore all over the world.… Read More
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A GIF experiment made from an illustration I did while in Panama.
Living Fossils
A sketchbook page about living fossils.
“Everything is supposed to go to hell at around 2050-2100, right? Or, everything is really gonna change at least. Maybe the East Coast is gonna flood, maybe the West will dry up. One time I saw a map depicting climate shift in the Midwest and the South, and in the next few decades, Michigan’s gonna have the climate that Arkansas does now.… Read More