Hanging mobile, a story.

I started this blog out of a desire to find a bit of balance in my life again.
I studied Art at the Academy, got my degree in Fine Arts, started painting, sculpturing, making installations. Then I tried to market and sell my art, which wasn't that easy as I soon found out.

To keep my head up and earn a living I had a parttime job in telecom. I tried to make an earning by working at an art centre, as hostess and keeper of an artbookstore, but found out that earning an honest living in that department was also a challenge.

So the selling part and art appeared to bring conflict in my life. I met the love of my life, got married, turned 30 and found myself in my quarterlife crisis, the point at which you find that you reached the point where you are assumed to Be somebody instead of Becomming someone. And the dream and reality weren't on one line.

Then I became a mama, that turned my life totally upside down, no time for petty crisis, hormones raging, life fullfilment all pointed on keeping this little miracle comfortable and happy. Becoming a family, finding a new role in that. So life changed my perspectives drastically a many few times over.

Maybe that's just how it is supposed to be...
I am still stumbling, but am learning to enjoy myself while going upside down for the x-th time.

So I started this blog in the hope that it would reflect a little of who I was, where I am going, what matters in my life and maybe meet other people who reflect a littlebit of that same journey.

And in all that has happend this need appeared; to make mobiles, to bring the complexity, the richness, the new, the organic, the bounty and the surprise outside and into one tangible object. And that is how these mobiles came into being.

I have them hanging in several spaces in our home and I find that they bring me balance in my emotions, in my feelings. They do exactly that which the need that brought them forth asked for:

" They remind me of the richness and the complexity of my life and that, though I may not be able to understand which way I am going or hanging, be it right be it upside down, I am one with my life and it is organic and beautiful."

In my workspace

Sometimes it is essential to leave your comfort zone. 

Sometimes the only way to do that is by opening up to the view of someone else.

And then the magic happens...

When I'm stuck I have the opportunity to ask for a creative brainstorm-session with my husband. His hands can make anything he dreams up. It doesn't hurt to let his experience as a goldsmith, his creative and scrutinizing eye, brush over my thoughts and projects. 

To leave my comfort zone, meant for me, to embrace the art of soldering. 

It is like a breath of fresh air storming into my life, opening up so many more opportunities. So many more paths to explore. 

And this is where it led to: two different versions of a crane-like bird, soaring through the sky. Probably finding it's new home in the Niche of our House. 

So I'm off... 

My creative well has been refilled and I'll be busy for a while chasing all those new ideas, taking flight, skimming over the endless landscape of my minds possibilities. Wishing you a lovely day!

In my workspace

There is no question about it: things just don't get done without supervision of miss Poes. 

The only way to get things done is with miss Poes on my lap, right there where the action is, although she misses most action while slumbering away. Half of the time we co-create, the other half I'm crawling on my knees, trying to find a missing part of a mobile, of which she decided it looked like a mouse and needed to be tossed here and there. Now if that isn't the art of trying to find a balance!

But I can proudly say we were having a very fine creative and productive February and March so far. Three new mobiles have found there way into existence and into my Etsy shop, so go and have a look!

I'm very curious what you think of them.