Sourcing & materials
Where all of this comes from
Small, passionate suppliers over mass-produced wholesale stock. It costs more. It's the difference you can feel.
Small suppliers, on purpose
When materials come from smaller companies, there's more care. Moss that was harvested at its peak and preserved properly holds a green you can't fake and a softness that survives being touched. Big-box preserved moss is technically the same category of thing and it is not the same thing at all — it's flatter, more uniform, and it feels manufactured, because it was.
Wood that already has a shape
Grapewood, driftwood, manzanita, relic root. These are the pieces that decide what a sculpture becomes, so they get chosen one at a time. A limb with a hollow in the wrong place is a piece I'll never make; a limb with a hollow in the right place is practically finished before I start.
Preserved, not plastic
Preservation uses a biodegradable, non-toxic agent that replaces the plant's sap and halts decay while keeping color, texture, and flexibility. It's real plant material all the way through. Nothing gets sprayed green, and nothing here is silk.
Sustainability, honestly stated
A preserved piece replaces years of live plants that would be thrown out and replaced. The wood is gathered fallen or reclaimed. That's a genuinely lower-footprint object than the alternative — and it's also true that we're a small studio still improving how we source. We'll keep saying which is which.