emily iris

Hello, it is exciting, and bit disconcerting, to be the first post on this new blog.  Hopefully this will help define and develop what we are going to create with More Than Two Hands. 

The ideas are fluid and open but based firmly on a hope to sustain our love and appreciation for creating.

I love to make all kinds of things, my hands are always busy.  The only constant is that I typically make a mess, I am trying to work on that but I get caught up in the excitement of creation, lost in a world of mixing and matching and coming out on the other end with something new and unique.

I love things sparkly and shiny next to the simple and muted.  Both making the other more of themselves and at the same time something new.  I adore my cashmere with crappy jeans.

To make a point I have three incredibly inspiring siblings; they are very different and so they create in very different ways.  A writer, a carpenter, and a painter.  However, just because those are their dominant 'art's does not mean they can be described so succinctly, I could write pages on each, and that is just a part of what makes them wonderful to me.  Art and creation is never small and well defined, it is cool and sloppy and wonderfully overlapping!

I guess what it comes down to is that it is no surprise that the largest motivation in my life is art.  I was lucky enough to be born into a creative home.  Surrounded by interactive art projects, games of make believe and a trunk full of dress up clothes; (I still enjoy all three) so my childhood has clearly impacted my life as an adult.  I have always known what I think is interesting and beautiful.  When I was little I tried to recreate it, now I try to make it mine.  

And so, with any luck, this mosaic of interest and excitement will enhance More Than Two Hands.  

I could try and explain more but I would rather listen to either your questions (so voice them) or my creative fingers twitching, together we'll see what develops.  

There will be more to come from myself, Tina and Colleen!

If you have the time please please visit our shop on Etsy:  

www.etsy.com/shop/MoreThanTwoHands 

There you can see the wonderful work of my cohorts Tina and Colleen!

yours, as it will be always,

Emily Iris

More Than Two Hands