By the time I made this pair, I had started to understand something about these wings that I could not see when I made the first ones…
They take up an astonishing amount of space.
The silk can be folded, rolled, packed away, carried from one place to another. The materials can disappear into boxes and wait until there is enough room to bring them out again.
But that is not what the wings are made to do.
They are made to unfurl.
And, in a way, so was I.
I could never have made this work entirely on my own.
It happened by the grace of other people.
For most of my life, I had lived in a tiny studio with no yard, far from the ocean. I did not have the kind of space this work requires. These wings need tables. Water. Sunlight. Room to spread yards of silk open. Room to rinse, dry, paint, sew, experiment, fail, begin again.
They need access to the coast.
They need somewhere for an idea to become physically enormous.
When I lost the spaces and structures I had once depended on, it was hard, I thought mostly about what had disappeared.
But something unexpected happened.
Other people made room for me.
A table.
A yard.
A place to wash the silk.
A ride toward the ocean.
A place where materials could spread out.
A corner where a project could remain unfinished long enough for me to return to it.
None of it looked like the life or studio I would have designed for myself.
And yet, somehow, inside those borrowed and shared spaces, this work became possible.
Losing my own space gave me access to spaces I never would have entered otherwise.
It brought me closer to the ocean, and myself.
It brought me into relationship with people whose generosity allowed me to keep making.
And, in one of those contradictions life seems to love, losing the place where I thought I was supposed to create gave me what I needed to create something that felt more like myself.
Something expansive.
Something physical.
Something alive.
Something with wings.
That realization became part of Liberation for me.
Freedom is not always independence.
Sometimes freedom arrives because someone makes room for you.
Sometimes it arrives through receiving. Accepting permission.
Through being carried for a while.
Through letting another person offer you a table, a garden, a ride, a place in the sun.
There is liberation in realizing that accepting support does not make the work any less yours.
Sometimes grace is part of the medium.
You are allowed to unfurl.
You are allowed to be where you find yourself.
For anyone who has had to move, physically or metaphorically, who has lived out of boxes, who has not had a place to settle, unpack, spread out, or fully become yourself for some time, these wings are for you.
There are seasons when life asks us to keep everything packed.
Our clothes.
Our art.
Our tools.
Our plans.
Our rituals.
Our sense of home.
Even parts of ourselves.
We learn to live from what is easiest to reach.
We fold things smaller.
We make do with temporary spaces.
We tell ourselves we will unpack when there is more room, more certainty, more time.
But after a while, it can become hard to remember what it felt like to spread everything out.
To leave the paints on the table.
To let a project take over a room.
To follow an idea for hours.
To move without constantly making yourself smaller for the space you are in.
So this is your permission to unpack something.
Maybe not everything.
Maybe not all at once.
Open one box.
Pull something back into the light.
Make room for what still wants to live through you.
You are allowed to unfurl.
You are allowed to move slowly.
You are allowed to take your time opening.
You are allowed to stretch beyond the dimensions you have been folded into.
You are allowed to take up space again.
Let these wings remind you what expansion feels like.
Open your arms.
Let the silk move past the edges of your body.
Let it fill the space around you.
Gather the wind.
Sweep.
Turn.
Reach.
Move slowly enough to feel yourself returning.
Move wildly when wildness comes.
Let the body choose.
Let movement become a kind of unpacking.
Let one gesture open another.
Let one idea lead to the next.
Let creativity spill beyond the container you have been keeping it in.
You do not need a perfect studio.
You do not need every box unpacked.
You do not need your whole life arranged before you are allowed to make something beautiful.
Creativity can begin here.
Movement can begin here.
Pleasure can begin here.
Freedom can begin here.
Wherever you presently find yourself.
In whatever room.
In whatever season.
With whatever you have managed to carry with you.
Open what you can.
Spread out what matters.
Give your imagination some room.
Let your life become larger than the box it has been living in.
You are allowed to unfurl.
___________
These magical oceanic silk angel wings are handmade for dance, flow arts, worship, ritual, play, photography, performance and becoming your most luminous ocean self.
Each pair is created in San Diego, California using a sun print process and fresh kelp or other sea botanicals ethically harvested, composited then composted from the shores of the Pacific. I make every piece by hand with sunlight, seawater, silk, and naturally washed-ashore kelp. No two prints will ever be exactly alike.
Because I print with real fresh kelp, every order begins with a custom beach trip. Seaweed decomposes quickly, so I harvest it fresh and look for beautiful, mostly intact fronds during high tide. Then I bring it home, prepare the silk, create the exposure, rinse and process the piece, clean up the studio, and carefully pack it for its journey to you.
Each set takes roughly a day and a half of hands-on work, plus travel time, materials, cleanup, packaging, and the many small business costs behind making art sustainably. Your purchase supports an independent artist making wearable ocean magic one piece at a time.
This is a wet sun print artwork, so you may see organic marks, tonal variation, soft edges, water textures, and other beautiful creative imperfections. These are not flaws. They are part of the handmade process and the reason every silk feels alive and unique.
Please treat your silk wings with care. Keep them away from dusty or dirty environments, rough surfaces, and anything that may snag or stain the fabric.
If they get dirty wash only with non alkaline silk soap. Not detergent. Heritage is a good brand. The color will change if washed with alkaline. If the color begins to change, rinse in a solution of water and vinegar to bring back the intensity of the blue.
Printed in the USA. Currently shipped within the USA only.
If you would like, you may leave a wish, prayer, blessing, intention, or a little good juju in your order notes. I will hold it in my heart while I make your piece, in whatever way feels appropriate and comfortable to you.
Dance with them. Pray with them. Play with them. Let the ocean move through you.
_____________
SPECS
Lightweight Silk Wings
These silk wings are designed to feel airy, fluid, and responsive in motion. The lightweight fabric creates a wide, dramatic shape for dance, flow arts, ritual, worship, photography, and performance without feeling heavy in your hands.
Each set weighs approximately 60 g / 2.1 oz.
-Full wingspan: 180 cm / 70 in
-Wing length: 90 cm / 35 in
The silk is printed by hand with my original kelp cyanotype process, so the blue-and-white design shifts beautifully as the fabric moves through light.
Flexible, Travel-Friendly Rods
Each set comes with lightweight fiberglass rods that are strong, flexible, and easy to carry. The rods detach for packing and travel, then assemble quickly when you are ready to dance.
Thoughtful Construction
The silk sleeves that hold the rods are reinforced in the areas that receive the most movement and pressure. Strong stitching and finished edges help the wings hold up through regular use while reducing fraying.
Because every pair is individually printed with real kelp and sunlight, variations in print placement, water texture, blue tone, and organic markings are part of the one-of-a-kind artwork.
Care Instructions
Gently steam before use to release wrinkles and help the silk move freely.
Only wash with detergent free silk laundry soap. Handwash. Little leftovers of detergent in washing machine can brown cyanotype print. Keep away from alkaline sprays etc. Keep the wings away from water, humidity, rain, wet sand, dusty environments, and damp storage. Store them completely dry in a protective bag between uses.
These are delicate silk artworks made for movement. Handle them with care, and they will remain beautiful for many dances.
By the time I made this pair, I had started to understand something about these wings that I could not see when I made the first ones…
They take up an astonishing amount of space.
The silk can be folded, rolled, packed away, carried from one place to another. The materials can disappear into boxes and wait until there is enough room to bring them out again.
But that is not what the wings are made to do.
They are made to unfurl.
And, in a way, so was I.
I could never have made this work entirely on my own.
It happened by the grace of other people.
For most of my life, I had lived in a tiny studio with no yard, far from the ocean. I did not have the kind of space this work requires. These wings need tables. Water. Sunlight. Room to spread yards of silk open. Room to rinse, dry, paint, sew, experiment, fail, begin again.
They need access to the coast.
They need somewhere for an idea to become physically enormous.
When I lost the spaces and structures I had once depended on, it was hard, I thought mostly about what had disappeared.
But something unexpected happened.
Other people made room for me.
A table.
A yard.
A place to wash the silk.
A ride toward the ocean.
A place where materials could spread out.
A corner where a project could remain unfinished long enough for me to return to it.
None of it looked like the life or studio I would have designed for myself.
And yet, somehow, inside those borrowed and shared spaces, this work became possible.
Losing my own space gave me access to spaces I never would have entered otherwise.
It brought me closer to the ocean, and myself.
It brought me into relationship with people whose generosity allowed me to keep making.
And, in one of those contradictions life seems to love, losing the place where I thought I was supposed to create gave me what I needed to create something that felt more like myself.
Something expansive.
Something physical.
Something alive.
Something with wings.
That realization became part of Liberation for me.
Freedom is not always independence.
Sometimes freedom arrives because someone makes room for you.
Sometimes it arrives through receiving. Accepting permission.
Through being carried for a while.
Through letting another person offer you a table, a garden, a ride, a place in the sun.
There is liberation in realizing that accepting support does not make the work any less yours.
Sometimes grace is part of the medium.
You are allowed to unfurl.
You are allowed to be where you find yourself.
For anyone who has had to move, physically or metaphorically, who has lived out of boxes, who has not had a place to settle, unpack, spread out, or fully become yourself for some time, these wings are for you.
There are seasons when life asks us to keep everything packed.
Our clothes.
Our art.
Our tools.
Our plans.
Our rituals.
Our sense of home.
Even parts of ourselves.
We learn to live from what is easiest to reach.
We fold things smaller.
We make do with temporary spaces.
We tell ourselves we will unpack when there is more room, more certainty, more time.
But after a while, it can become hard to remember what it felt like to spread everything out.
To leave the paints on the table.
To let a project take over a room.
To follow an idea for hours.
To move without constantly making yourself smaller for the space you are in.
So this is your permission to unpack something.
Maybe not everything.
Maybe not all at once.
Open one box.
Pull something back into the light.
Make room for what still wants to live through you.
You are allowed to unfurl.
You are allowed to move slowly.
You are allowed to take your time opening.
You are allowed to stretch beyond the dimensions you have been folded into.
You are allowed to take up space again.
Let these wings remind you what expansion feels like.
Open your arms.
Let the silk move past the edges of your body.
Let it fill the space around you.
Gather the wind.
Sweep.
Turn.
Reach.
Move slowly enough to feel yourself returning.
Move wildly when wildness comes.
Let the body choose.
Let movement become a kind of unpacking.
Let one gesture open another.
Let one idea lead to the next.
Let creativity spill beyond the container you have been keeping it in.
You do not need a perfect studio.
You do not need every box unpacked.
You do not need your whole life arranged before you are allowed to make something beautiful.
Creativity can begin here.
Movement can begin here.
Pleasure can begin here.
Freedom can begin here.
Wherever you presently find yourself.
In whatever room.
In whatever season.
With whatever you have managed to carry with you.
Open what you can.
Spread out what matters.
Give your imagination some room.
Let your life become larger than the box it has been living in.
You are allowed to unfurl.
___________
These magical oceanic silk angel wings are handmade for dance, flow arts, worship, ritual, play, photography, performance and becoming your most luminous ocean self.
Each pair is created in San Diego, California using a sun print process and fresh kelp or other sea botanicals ethically harvested, composited then composted from the shores of the Pacific. I make every piece by hand with sunlight, seawater, silk, and naturally washed-ashore kelp. No two prints will ever be exactly alike.
Because I print with real fresh kelp, every order begins with a custom beach trip. Seaweed decomposes quickly, so I harvest it fresh and look for beautiful, mostly intact fronds during high tide. Then I bring it home, prepare the silk, create the exposure, rinse and process the piece, clean up the studio, and carefully pack it for its journey to you.
Each set takes roughly a day and a half of hands-on work, plus travel time, materials, cleanup, packaging, and the many small business costs behind making art sustainably. Your purchase supports an independent artist making wearable ocean magic one piece at a time.
This is a wet sun print artwork, so you may see organic marks, tonal variation, soft edges, water textures, and other beautiful creative imperfections. These are not flaws. They are part of the handmade process and the reason every silk feels alive and unique.
Please treat your silk wings with care. Keep them away from dusty or dirty environments, rough surfaces, and anything that may snag or stain the fabric.
If they get dirty wash only with non alkaline silk soap. Not detergent. Heritage is a good brand. The color will change if washed with alkaline. If the color begins to change, rinse in a solution of water and vinegar to bring back the intensity of the blue.
Printed in the USA. Currently shipped within the USA only.
If you would like, you may leave a wish, prayer, blessing, intention, or a little good juju in your order notes. I will hold it in my heart while I make your piece, in whatever way feels appropriate and comfortable to you.
Dance with them. Pray with them. Play with them. Let the ocean move through you.
_____________
SPECS
Lightweight Silk Wings
These silk wings are designed to feel airy, fluid, and responsive in motion. The lightweight fabric creates a wide, dramatic shape for dance, flow arts, ritual, worship, photography, and performance without feeling heavy in your hands.
Each set weighs approximately 60 g / 2.1 oz.
-Full wingspan: 180 cm / 70 in
-Wing length: 90 cm / 35 in
The silk is printed by hand with my original kelp cyanotype process, so the blue-and-white design shifts beautifully as the fabric moves through light.
Flexible, Travel-Friendly Rods
Each set comes with lightweight fiberglass rods that are strong, flexible, and easy to carry. The rods detach for packing and travel, then assemble quickly when you are ready to dance.
Thoughtful Construction
The silk sleeves that hold the rods are reinforced in the areas that receive the most movement and pressure. Strong stitching and finished edges help the wings hold up through regular use while reducing fraying.
Because every pair is individually printed with real kelp and sunlight, variations in print placement, water texture, blue tone, and organic markings are part of the one-of-a-kind artwork.
Care Instructions
Gently steam before use to release wrinkles and help the silk move freely.
Only wash with detergent free silk laundry soap. Handwash. Little leftovers of detergent in washing machine can brown cyanotype print. Keep away from alkaline sprays etc. Keep the wings away from water, humidity, rain, wet sand, dusty environments, and damp storage. Store them completely dry in a protective bag between uses.
These are delicate silk artworks made for movement. Handle them with care, and they will remain beautiful for many dances.
