The poetry of stars

about me, photography, the crafted object

  It’s almost christmas, and I know from experience it can be a bit frantic. Enjoy your loved ones. Take the time to breathe, and contemplate the peace of stars. * The Peace of Wild Things BY WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me and I wake...

Photography : Kari Herer

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  Kari Herer’s Dad was a biology teacher, and she credits him with her love of nature. She said she grew up surrounded by animals – at one point they had a baby pool in their kitchen with African frogs in it, and another time they kept a rescued bird...

Photography : Jetty Kolobaric

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  Self-taught photographer Jetty Kolobaric is a person of few words. Living in Helmond in the south of the Netherlands, she has travelled the world, and finds being restricted by borders “not my thing at all.” Winter is her favourite season; mist is...

Photography : Augenblick

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  Rebeccah Dean is a photographer, collector of vintage images, and a maker of jewellery and objects. She sells various combinations of these things in her shop, Augenblick, which literally translates from the German as ‘in the blink of an eye’. Her...

Photography : Molly’s Muses

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  Molly O’Bryon-Welpott lives in the rural town of DuBois, Pennsylvania, in a house that was built in 1915. Many of her neighbours have lived in the same home for 50 years. “My office is upstairs and I can see the elementary school. The small room has...