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From wherever you are on this good green earth to where I am, here in a boreal forest on the lands of the Chinook-speaking peoples in a place called Portland, Oregon and from my people to yours ~
~greetings.
I’m an artist, writer, teacher, and musician with a background in public education, non-profit development, end-of-life care, event production, social media, website design, live music and online learning.
My offerings live at the intersections of deeply analog folk art, earth-based practices, and ancestrally-nourished skill development informed by decolonial, non-dual animism and the thought leadership emerging from the Global South.
My recent ancestors were Swedish immigrant settler-colonizers; my other ancestry is Scottish Highlander (Ross Clan), Irish, Welsh, British, French and German.
Featured Products
Vintage leather and cloth gloves are affixed in a swan shape to a matte black background featuring opera stars. Eye is a sterling silver onyx pendant. Frame is a salvaged antique from Old Portland Hardware. It has been reinforced with brackets on the back, is gold tone and is made mostly of wood with plenty of chips for character.
Lightweight and ready to hang with a wire on the back.
Measures approximately 23” x 19”
Vintage brass heart amulet on vintage chain. Measures approx. 28”. Etched on one side.
Contains henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) seeds, a poisonous plant in the nightshade family.
Seeds are viable and are not for human consumption. Do not purchase if amulet cannot be secured safely from children, pets, and other at-risk humans. Seeds are toxic and alkaloids are no joke.
Germanic and Norse peoples called the plant bilsa as Proto-Germanic bil meant "vision", "hallucination", "magical power", and "miraculous ability”.
Henbane is associated with:
trance
altered states: euphoria + delirium
prophecy
summoning
necromancy
divination
protection (especially from danger, travel, the night)
threshold crossing
sleep magic: rest, dreamwork, relief from suffering
It was originally used in continental Europe, Asia, and the Arab world, then spread to England in the Middle Ages.
Famously, henbane seeds were found in the Fyrkat grave of a 13th century völva (Norse seeress) in Denmark and in other Norse/Viking artifacts. A popular theory speculates henbane was used by the berserkers.
Henbane seeds were traditionally fumigated (used in incense, burned on coals, etc.) as the tropane alkaloids were able to be inhaled, causing sensations of flight, sedation, and anesthetization. It is anti-emetic, used for toothaches, and was a popular ingredient in beer. By the middle ages henbane was strongly associated with witchcraft, and has been feared ever since.
A pressed belladonna flower from my garden on some vintage Belgian lace. Behind glass in a vintage carved wood frame with a floral motif.
Wired back and ready to hang.
Atropa Belladonna is a poisonous and magical plant also known as deadly nightshade. All parts of the plant contain tropane alkaloids and are toxic. Do not purchase if artwork cannot be secured from pets, children, or other at-risk humans. For display purposes only. Not for human consumption.
Te Paominas
Female-Fronted Psychedelic Deep Tonk out of Portland, Oregon.
I’ve been a student of Daoism for several years, and am deeply committed to an engaged form of the tradition that examines how precepts vis-a-v-s systems of oppression affect the material conditions of all beings. I also follow and support the Baye Fall, and I am able to do the work that I do with the financial support from my husband.
I work in a dozen kinds of media, play four instruments, speak three languages, parent two children, and holler at one cat, usually not all at once.
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