A Collaboration with Duende
A Collaboration with Duende
It is with deep inspiration that I share our newest collaboration with you: Duende x Wiley.
This collection was curated by Elise Joseph and inspired by Wiley Canning Company. It includes an alabaster fruit set, striking serveware intended to store your farmers’ market finds, earth-toned glassware, and vintage doilies. You may recognize the vintage doilies from our event at The Well Lived Woman in May.
Finally, an exclusive print, entitled Golden Day, is a part of this collaboration. My artist’s statement about this print, photographed in Nashville, Tennessee, is below.
Golden Day was photographed in Nashville, Tennessee. It is 8 inches x 10 inches and was created exclusively for Duende in limited quantities.
All prints are signed, dated, and numbered. They ship separately from Nashville, Tennessee.
My artist’s statement can be found below.
When I think of Elise Joseph, I think of true friendship. When I think of true friendship, I think of attention and care.
Ease and plasticity.
Curiosity and warmth.
When I envision a golden day with Elise, we are having lunch in the courtyard of Gjusta, driving through the lush canyons of Topanga, and drilling deep, through conversation and comfort, into the pride and ache of our hearts.
What makes us human is our ability to perceive—to celebrate and to grieve—the nuance of our everyday lives. Living, loving, and creating throughout our highly nuanced—sometimes unbearably nuanced—lifetime requires true friendships such as mine with Elise: a community of kindred spirits, curious minds, and forgiving hearts.
If I could wish a single wish for my closest friends this July, it is to experience a golden day: a blip of one’s waking life feeling the sun on their forearms and hearing the harmonious echo of birds, a sound only made when they feel wholly safe to make their presence known. It is to have a delicious, nourishing meal while sitting in the complexity of their beautiful, difficult, and hopeful lives, as they take comfort in the gift it is to experience friendship.
It is in this spirit I have named this print, Golden Day, as I gave myself this very gift to create it. I brought it to life in connection with Elise, a playlist humming through my speakers, and in the driveway of a home I adore, one that holds space for each and every friend that loves and supports the multiple facets of my dreams, personality, and being.
Duende’s new mixtape on Spotify, Duende Ritual Sounds, Vol. III, was created for this collaboration and encourages quieting the mind and savoring the little moments.
All vintage items were photographed by Elise Joseph in Los Angeles, California. The photographic print, Golden Day, was photographed by Chelsea J. O’Leary in Nashville, Tennessee. The collage was created by Meg Towle.
