I made this small dreamcatcher like hanging piece after leading a workshop SUM 숨 here
@mashousestudio at Shinnecock Indian Reservation with the community. I attended a beading workshop led by Dennis, I learned how to work with beads and created my first necklaces and bracelets. I loved it and now I want buy so many different types of beads 🤭😆🫶🏻🙏🏻💖my workshop was fun and playful. Children loved it!
I gathered fallen branches from around the MAs house 🏠 and combined them with fallen branches, wire( I used wire to tied branches, I broke them while banding them), beads, painted fabric, and hand sewn soft sculptures. I made a yellow bird, a few flowers, and one of the small faces by my friend Hyunji, I didn’t have a plan. I was simply following my instincts and allowing myself to play.
The bird feels like a symbol of freedom and migration. The flowers remind me of healing and softness. The faces hold something more emotional perhaps parts of myself, memories, or people I met Hyunji and memories we carried with us. Together, they hang in balance, like fragments of a dream.
This piece was not meant to be a finished work or a major project. It was an experimentation made for the joy of making. But sometimes these small and spontaneous pieces reveal something important. They remind me that my strongest work often comes when I stop trying to control the outcome and trust my intuition.
Being here has given me space to slow down and reconnect with why I make art in the first place. It starts with curiosity, with freedom, and with the simple desire to transform ordinary materials into something meaningful.
I would love to continue exploring this direction, creating more birds, flowers, animals, and human forms using found nature elements like, tree branches, dried plants, nuts, 🌰 fabric, sewing, and paint. It feels playful and personal at the same time. And it reminds me that art does not always need to begin with a big ideas. it begins with a walk outside, see what’s around us, and the willingness to try and make things happen🌻🌞👌☕️🧶🧵🪡🪿🕊️
