resin art—I trap moments that refuse to sit still. My pieces starts somewhere out in the wild, way of pressing … on a world that never stops
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RESIN. It’s not delicate—it’s deliberate. I take things that would normally fade, crumble, or disappear, and I lock them into something permanent. Not polished perfection, but raw, untamed memory. Ocean to earth to air—everything I find has a story, and I don’t let those stories vanish. I seal them. I preserve them. I give them weight.
Where do you find inspiration?my hands are busy collecting fragments of a life lived wide open. A shell shaped by restless tides, a stone that’s seen more sunsets than most people, a feather dropped mid-flight, a butterfly that once danced like it owned the sky. These aren’t just objects. They’re evidence. Proof that I was there, that something real happened. Because some moments deserve more than a memory. They deserve to last.
What would you do with $25,000?If I win $25,000, every dollar is going straight back where it belongs—into the dogs. Into second chances. Into late-night vet runs and early-morning saves. Into the ones who were overlooked, written off, or one breath away from being gone. Show Me Your Pitties Rescue isn’t just something I run—it’s something I fight for. This money would mean more lives pulled from the edge, more healing, more tails wagging where there used to be silence. It’s not about winning. It’s about how many we can save.
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