finding magic in the smallest of places

last week i went treasure hunting in New Hope, a small town in PA filled with secrets and bikers. my favorite part about the town is that it is mostly covered in foliage: ivy snakes around homes and sheds, bushes are wildly overgrown, tree roots battle concrete for a place to find peace. everything is feral. my dream is to live in a renovated barn but i'm willing to settle for a home that looks like it grew from the earth.

my killing: one small amethyst ball-and-claw bitters glass bottle (to fill with small stories); 1951 edition of Homer's Iliad; two brass keys; one pewter key.

my makes:

he knew the things that were and the things that would be 

and the things that had been before. -Homer, Iliad

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m

for whatever we lose. ..

i'm inspired largely by the written word, and have, as of late, been creating some hand-lettered illustrations with my favorites. this one was influenced by the following e. e. cummings poem: 

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

for whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

- e. e. cummings

 

 

8"x10" prints are available in my etsy and cargoh shops! as always, message me if you'd like a print in an alternate size- i'll pull strings to make you smile.

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m

how lucky to be so unusually free

meet timofey, a sometimes-too-pensive wolf influenced by both the Nabokovian character and the flesh spirit.

an A4 version of this print is now available in my etsy shop!  i've also been lucky enough to be accepted into the cargoh community, which is a curated marketplace.

you can visit my shop here and read a little feature on me here. if you're also on cargoh, shoot me a message and let me know. :]

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m

slow like summer + honey

a few months ago, i designed the packaging for Raw Local Honey, an organic honey harvest venture led by PJ Martin in Springfield, NJ. PJ harvests his honey seasonally, and pours nothing but raw, uninterrupted, fragrant honey into each jar. since different plants & flowers thrive in different seasons, each season produces a batch wonderfully distinct in smell & flavor.

best of all--unlike most larger brands you find shelved in your market, the flowers that these bees collect their pollen from are pesticide and fertilizer free. which means you will be, too.

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m

plums and weddings

i finally have some photographs of the invitations i designed for my good friends lauren & dave, who got married last september. the envelopes are handmade (officially addicted) from plum card stock and lined with a floral pattern. 

i'm really beginning to enjoy designing invitation suites and cards- if you'd like me to work on a design for you, shoot me an email: meera.lee.patel[@]gmail.com.

i also (finally) have my portfolio site up and running: www.meeralee.com. i'm updating here and there, but it's finally beginning to come together. hope your fourth of july is filled with pastry & fireworks.

boats,
m