When I walk through the forest, I don’t see two leaves that are exactly the same. No tree repeats itself. No stone is perfectly smooth. Everything is in constant creation, but none of it is hurried. The world creates slowly, with care, with pauses. With breath.
This is something I keep coming back to when I make jewelry. I don’t want to rush it. I don’t want to force shapes or copy what’s been done before. Each piece has its own rhythm, its own little birth. Sometimes I just hold a stone or a thread of hemp in my hand for days before I even begin. Sometimes I begin and then take it all apart, because the energy isn’t right.
I know this isn’t the fastest way. But it feels real.
There’s so much pressure to create more, to be faster, to always be “launching.” But when I look around, I see that the wild world doesn’t operate like that. It doesn’t make a thousand of the same flower. It doesn’t rush the spring. It’s slow and sacred and wildly creative.
And that’s what I want to reflect in my jewelry...that soft defiance. That remembering.
Every necklace, every knot, every wrapping is a quiet act of choosing presence over perfection. And I believe the people who wear these pieces can feel that. The world doesn’t mass-produce. And neither do I.
Love,
Barbara