some things that matter to me: daughter. stillness. color. flight. habitat. justice. distance and perspective. proximity and detail. wildness. wilderness. i am a maine girl who lived and worked for a long time in the wilds of brooklyn. i grew up in a small town far up the coast of maine, where the light was long and grey or sharp and of a brilliant clarity, depending on the time of year, the time
of day, and the changeable, temperamental weather. when my daughter was about to be born, i moved back to the coast of maine, and it was here that she made her arrival, and here that we live and play and make beauty. years ago i took a week long intensive in metalsmithing. i had always been an artist, mostly a drawer and a painter, majoring in art in college. something about metal, about making things that were somewhat permanent, that were solid, that would outlive me - there was a new kind of magic to this, and i fell in love. over the years that followed i slowly collected tools, took classes at Brooklyn Metal Works, MECA, and FIT, and mostly learned by trial and error how to convince metal to take the shapes i wanted it to take. these are the words in the tiny love letter i used to send when someone bought a piece of my jewelry.
“fierce grace. radical self love. love letters to the body. reminders of kinship, heart flame, home. my wish for all of us is that we learn to know ourselves as home. that we be world inside ourselves. these pieces are made as reminders that we are home, that the body is home, that the earth is home. that the earth and the body are not two. we are in and of each other. they are blessings, each piece, reminders to keep bringing ourselves back to the kind and patient shelter of the body, to keep bringing ourselves home. to recognize its loyalty and its wilderness. to love it, wholly, and to be at home and at peace inside our skin." http://owlandbone.com is currently showcasing my jewelry. come visit! xoxo
erin t. molitor”
