learning enamelling

"try to keep yourself ignorant about colour

try to keep it intuitive

try not to learn what warm and cool mean, what the primary colours are

try to let your colours be as spontaneous as possible"

"How do you know what colour to choose?

The same way to choose what to wear.

Your palette is like your closet."

Both pieces of advice, Barbara Nechis

Working with hands

"The practice of fiber work, wildcrafting, ancestral memory and ritual connects us to something powerful and mysterious. While we may not be conscious of the old practices, our hands remember." Kristen Roderick, 

Excerpt from blog post "The Forgotten Language of Dolls".

garba dhamal

A creative act is not linear. It does not start at “A” and end at “Z” with a product that is wholly explainable. One can neither predict beforehand nor fully comprehend afterwards the steps involved. It is both intellectual and emotional and totally human.

~ Lissa Hunter

Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle usually involving musical, artistic, or literary pursuits; followers of such a way of life are called bohemians and they dwell outside the bourgeois