Black envelops and swallows, is cave and abyss, the holes of space and the bowels of the earth.Black is foulness, decay and dirt. But the black dirt can be the soil itself, the fertile covering of the earth, from which life arises. You may see in black the sinister, but also, because it confers invisibility, black has the capacity to protect. Black comes from the north, the direction of danger, but also from the east, the place of sunrise. Black connotes the “seasoned” individual’s achieved social maturity and authority, patience and the ability to wait. We are not always sure what to call black – a color, or the absence of any color, or as the Sufi mystic poet Rumi described it, “the consummation of all colors,” the state of beatitude in which the godhead reveals itself, ravishing the initiate. In black is expressed the “sublimation and purification of all emotions” realised by the individual who has plumbed the depths “of the sadness of human existence”.
Black is primary to many forms of transformation, the imaginal hue of individual metanoia, a turning away, or a turning inward, or even a “dark night of the soul”, the luminous darkness of self-understanding!
All of the garments are cut, meticulously hand quilted, sewn and finished by one person, process which due to the slow approach may last up to a week. Each piece is unique and carries its particular energy.
