Embers Collection was released the second week of November after months of planning, dreaming, execution and production. I am grateful to Kate Nelson, who published a piece in the Huffington Post about the collection two weeks back. Please view PRESS to click the image & read article.

2024 proved to be one bonkers of a year and much of the time, I honestly felt like I was doing my best each & everyday to chin up it with high highs, low lows. That is always the challenge as a professional creative, learning to ride the waves of this unknown path. Building fires for myself has become one of my favorite pastimes in New Mexico throughout all seasons and the symbology of embers within the ash is what inspired the collection. I’ve often wanted to powder my palms in the ash after I’ve thrown all I need to in the fire and contemplate what to build afterwards. Embers are spark that we can chose to reignite a fire with, or permit to fizzle for good in smokey gray & black soot.

I sourced 50lbs of churro wool fleece which I delicately washed to reflect the curl of smoke that rises once I’ve added more substance to the fire. The perfect little dainty tops where woven into the Ember Smoke Tie Dress alongside the Cinder Smoke Cowl Neck, a subtle lanolin present for texture rising upwards to the sky like a prayer. Black soot, dark ebony wood that’s been kissed by fire, tobacco brown for that wood that keeps the flame & heat going strong, ashen white reflects the cleanliness of everything having faded back to nothing. As it’s the cooler months, merino & alpaca comprise the base for all the garments with subtle weft decor throughout like striation in large pieces of cedar & pine I burnt this year.

I am so grateful to my incredible team that supported this visual journey in the cold rain and rising winter. It’s a good thing all the wearables are warm as that was indeed a chilly, long day running around the land with an arm full of jewelry & textiles. Here are some of the images I thoroughly loved producing.