Our First Collection

Denizens of the Underworld

This is an evolving body of work that began unfolding throughout 2025—a visual meditation rooted in a deeply personal experience, yet intentionally universal; the series explores what it means to descend into unfortunate times, to linger in uncertainty, and to emerge changed.

The “Underworld” is the place our spirit journeys through when life strips away certainty—when identity fractures, when comfort dissolves, when we are asked to confront loss, mystery, and emotional complexity. It's not a punishment. It is a crysalis.

These works intend to acknowledge and meet the viewer where they are.

1: The Gatekeeper

✨“I am allowed to change.”

✨“I emerge in my own time.

✨I trust the pause between who I was and who I am becoming.”

✨“I can break in the process of change—and yet remain complete.”

✨“It is through facing my greatest fears, that I will meet Myself fully.”

Toads—humble, and easily overlooked—serve as the central archetype of The Gatekeeper. Neither fully of water nor earth, they embody transition itself. From tadpole to land-dweller, the toad evolves from emotional turbulence to grounded stability, reminding us that transformation is natural.

At home in shadowed wetlands and unseen places, the toad thrives where others hesitate. In the winter, thier bodies can freeze solid, heartbeat suspended, and reanimate in the thaw. Survival, here, is not violent or loud. It is humbly miraculous.

We often say “I can’t”—sometimes rightly—but just as often from a fixed understanding of who we believe we are. Life has a way of undoing those assumptions. Nearly everyone is eventually surprised by the person they become, the skills they acquire, or the places that come to feel like home.

Let the toad be your inspiration when the path feels impassable—when an environment or a circumstance

Eclipses, symbolic of pause, inner work, and portals opening.

We break into divergent timelines at these threshold moments. You'll cross them knowingly, or by accident. There may be a sense of urgency, an urge to be reckless. If the truth will break it then perhaps it must, to ascend to a timeline with capacity for your higher good.

The convergence of the Portal and the Toad represents manifestation at the lowest point—the moment of compression before ascent. This is where momentum reverses. Where loss becomes catalyst. Where we rebound from our hardest places and rise again, altered but intact.

Remade.

✨Designs featuring this artwork are available in the shop.