We talked with multi-dimensional jewelry designer, artist, poet and life coach, Sharece Phillips. You have probably admired her dynamic, striking pieces in the Store’s jewelry case. Find out more here @sha_recejewelry and check out her new website where she’s selling some of her beautiful pieces.
Sharece give us an update on her life in Seattle during the quarantine:
Ok. In the beginning there was tremendous loss. Grieving for me was highly necessary. The first month of quarantine I had slept, meditated, and read a lot due to the allostatic load of the pandemic. Where do we go from here?
I share a studio with 13 other artists, so it seemed highly unlikely to work in the same way I used to. So I just started working with what I had around the house. My little work suitcase full of steel wire, hand tools, paintbrushes, pens, etc. and just began writing. All my feelings, fears, and dreams that have been coming up. Where do you go from here?
My partner @levoneleh and I decided to create a DIY artist residency to create and document our creative healing experiences. During the residency, I’ve been creating sculptures out of steel wire. Using jewelry techniques I’ve just been repetitively building off this tension I’ve been feeling. I read once that a spider’s web is a part of its mind—that the structures outside of the creature’s body is a part of its cognitive apparatus. I deeply resonate with this and have been greatly benefiting from this creative emotional processing.
Through this new project, I’ve realized there is room for multiple truths in all experiences. When there is chaos, there is also stillness. When there is constraint there is also expansion. Just like this experience, the sculpture represents a delicate strength that provides interconnectedness that I truly believe will be our path to love and healing through this time.
Rachael Lang
Store Manager and Buyer