Website: www.edleaves.com
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Introducing Emily Davis, analog leaf artist!
This is an exciting and meaningful introduction because it really hits home one of most important reasons I launched Found and Flowered - connection.
Emily and I have known each other since college (2009 graduation) and have kept in touch in small ways, mostly about memories. Collaborating with her on Found and Flowered opened up space for us to reconnect in a new way that’s full of renewed life, energy, and opportunity.
Like most creatives, Emily works in many mediums - from gardening to paper to her art practice in leaf art. She calls her creative space her "paper world" - a place to visit and a state of mind to enter into.
AND - Emily prints a creative newspaper of her own, which was one of many inspirations for the Found and Flowered newspaper.
For the September edition of Found and Flowered, Emily is contributing a beautiful, whimsical piece that inspires mindfulness and the art of noticing and will have you looking at fall leaves and colors in a whole new way.
Q + A with Emily
Go-to color palette? I work with a limited color palette provided by nature, specifically, by leaves.
Favorite flower? I've been loving feverfew! I just read about it more since being asked this question.
Last book you loved or are currently reading? Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A song or type of music on your creativity playlist? Most played is one of those 11-hour tracks of some beneficial frequency.
Materials or tools you can’t live without? My Cutter Bee scissors.
Favorite type of journal to work in? (and how many journals do you have going right now? ) I work on scraps of paper of all sizes. Sometimes they're organized, sometimes it's pure chaos, and sometimes it's organized chaos. I call it "paperworld". I also have notebooks but use them only to rip pages out of or like folders to slip half-folded pages into....or to "file" scraps into.
An easy way you get started? I clean off the table and wipe it down.
Place you usually create? In my rented studio apartment. It has a little garden that I'm allowed to shape as I please.
Themes or ideas inspiring you right now? Not to be cheesy but getting the Found and Flowered midsummer newspaper in the mail was eye-opening. I didn't realize how badly I needed more artistic collaboration. Collaboration for the sake of it! For my well-being.
Personal mantra or often revisited quote?
John O'Donohue — 'Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.'
Interested in submitting an article or visual art? Please reach out to foundandflowered@gmail.com
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