Sojourncuriosities' shop is stunning. Beautiful objects wrapped intricately to form beautiful jewelry.
Her nearly 100 shop items will take your breath away!
I reached out to her for an interview. Please check it out to learn more about http://sojourncuriosities.etsy.com/
WHAT DO YOU MAKE, WHY IS IT GREAT?
*One of a kind, fine jewelry with a story to tell. Dreams and memories of people, places, times and tales expressed in knitted and sculpted wire, incorporating lace, ribbon, semiprecious beads, vintage and modern found and natural objects.
WHY DO YOU DO THINGS HANDMADE, OR WHY DO YOU MAKE THE PRODUCTS YOU DO?
*My work is a melding of my passion for capturing the intangible in words, and my drive to create. The planning and dreaming is something I've always been prone to, and the bringing of those dreams and thoughts into a piece of wearable art that I can then share with someone is incredibly gratifying to me. Knowing that my pieces are created with a special intention, and then having someone else be drawn to that intention, and cherish it is amazing.
DESCRIBE WHAT YOU PUT INTO YOUR CRAFT, THE PROCESS OF MAKING THINGS
*Collecting: I've always been a collector. My dad is a nature lover and a scientist, and, in part, I think, due to him, my eye has been keen for interesting bits of nature for my whole life. For a while in college I had bracket fungus, small dried mushrooms, bits of lichen and moss, dried flowers, stones, and twigs, as decoration in my place. There would just be these little enclaves of nature preserved, something like a museum, actually. I still collect, but, now, I incorporate the special bits I find into my pieces.
*Revisiting: Sometimes I start with a plan, and I know what I'm looking for. Most times, I just open up my button box, or my box of nature, and see what calls to me.
*Making: Whatever I find calls to me, becomes knitted, or sculpted into a piece of wire based jewelry, along with beads, buttons, ribbons or lace.
*The Story: Sometimes the concept or story is there first, or develops, sometimes it's still developing even as I finish a piece. This aspect of my work is just as important to me as the finished tangible piece. It's almost like breathing life into the design.
PICK OUT ONE ITEM AND TELL US MORE ABOUT IT
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The "What the Nets Brought In" line of knitted pieces is based on the idea of some traveling ship, nets cast and bits of the essence of that time or place, dream or memory cling to the nets when they are drawn up.One of the most special-to-me pieces in this line is an earlier cuff, called "What the Nets Brought In: Christmas Eve, Fairmont Ave". This is based on memories of my Meme's house at Christmas time. She would have ribbon candy, and other old-fashioned fancy candies in bowls. Her tree was adorned with old-fashioned ornaments, metallic, glittering and fragile. At arrival or leaving, the darkness of her porch was threaded through with large, opaque multicolored Christmas lights.
Thanks, sojourn! Be sure to check out her shop at http://sojourncuriosities.etsy.com/!
1 comment:
Those last earrings are stunning! Beautiful work, great interview :)
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