As long as I can remember I’ve been making… well, something. Now, whether or not my creations survived my two baby brothers is a completely different story. When I was 14, I found my love in yarn. Yarn can be anything you want it to be, and I wanted it to be everything. I learned how to knit first, and then I found crochet… and it felt like the world opened up for me.
12 years (and many miles of yarn) later, I have first hand experience in just how much waste comes from unused yarn, let alone the art world as a whole. Today, I used primarily scrap or pre-used yarn to create tiny invincible plants. They find roots in cleaned up votive holders, empty pill bottles, tequila bottle tops, whatever I can get my fingies on. Each piece is entirely one of a kind, and keeps a bit more trash from ending up in landfills or the ocean.
As “Cactopia” suggests, this project started with crochet cacti. Specifically, 25 teeny tiny cacti for my kindergarten students at the end of my student teaching. Then I made a few cactus finger puppets for my 1st graders because sometimes its easier to listen to a single-googly-eyed mystic entity. Today Cactopia is many things, from teeny cacti to vining pothos, string of pearls to sometimes cat nip toys? The possibilities of what we can become is endless :)
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