Why Handbags? Why Now? A Shift in Focus
For over a decade, my world has been digital—dark fairy tales spun from pixels, fragments of forgotten photographs stitched into dreamscapes. I built stories in layers, crafting images that whispered of long-lost fables and strange, beautiful creatures. But something started to shift.
I felt it in the way people looked at my work. The questions changed. "Is this AI?" they’d ask, peering at the details, the textures, the brushstrokes. And no matter how I explained my process—how each piece was carefully composed, how the raw materials were gathered from the past and reimagined into something new—there was always that hesitation, that lingering doubt.
I found myself standing at a crossroads. Not because I wanted to stop creating digital art (I don’t think I ever could), but because I needed something… tangible. Something undeniably real. Something my own hands could shape and stitch and bring to life.
So, I made bags.
Not just any bags—crossbody bags, the kind that serve a purpose, the kind you carry with you as you move through the world. Half of them were born from proof sheets, remnants of past projects given new life. The other half? Those I designed from the ground up, transforming my artwork into fabric, printed onto denim by Spoonflower, then cut and sewn by hand. My hands.
There is a certain magic in making something physical. Digital art lives behind a screen, no matter how rich, no matter how intricate. But a bag? A bag is weight and texture. It is something that can be held, something that moves with you, something that exists beyond the ether of the internet.
And maybe that’s what I was craving all along—the grounding force of creation, of making art that can be touched, carried, used.
I haven’t abandoned my dark fairy tales. If anything, I’ve woven them into something new. A shift, not an ending. A different kind of storytelling—one that lives in the space between beauty and practicality, between fantasy and function.
So, for those who have asked, "Why handbags? Why now?"—this is why. Because sometimes, when you find yourself at a crossroads, the best thing to do is follow your hands. They usually know the way.
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