pisces

I made Pisces during a really low time. I didn't know it then, but I was quite unwell. My PMDD [premenstrual dysphoric disorder] was new, and it wasn't being managed well. It is now. I'm a typical Libra, but back then I felt much more like a Pisces. My moods were like water, flowing every which way, and some days my tears were too.

I wasn't feeling inspired by much. All I wanted was to make something, and I could only draw on my melancholy. Because my moods felt like water, that's where I went ~ the waves and curves of the ocean, and the colours of the shore. Red Rock, like the rocks along it. Mist Blue, like a misty morning on the water.

Making, day to day, turned out to be a blessing. I'm not religious at all, but living a creative life is such a gift for the brain. Making the same shape over and over, the Bay Bag, was like a meditation for me at the time. Even then, I made one of the magnets on its flap bigger than the other, on purpose. A little hint of joy.

The moon came with me too. I carried the crescent through from my Crescent Moon collection into the Thick Lune, because I think the moon pulls on the tides of our emotions, the same way it pulls the sea.

The Bay Bag, the Petit Bay Bag, the Thick Lune and the Pisces wallets all came from this time.