SELVATICA

Posted on Instagram on January 13, 2019

Two.
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This is the one I will keep for myself - still, sharing her here.
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Day two I was feeling a little less shaken. I had overcome the first day without the tragic scenario in my head happening - like ending up in the hospital with a mental breakdown. I know. I have this huge imagination 🤣
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I went to the bench thirsty for that special calm and focus that comes to me when I create.
I worked on a few commissions. I felt it was my duty.
I got anxious.
I realised I had to follow the creative stream that was keeping me afloat.
A quartz that I hoarded for years. Simple but a little broken inside, with red cracks in the surface.
The Fox.
Fox has been my animal for years but I didn't understand why it would come that day.
Still, I followed the call.
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Snake skin and Fox fur under the quartz. The Moth, again.
Phases of the Moon on the bail - for the Goddess energy that pulls at my hair and I still can't always embrace and surrender to.
And I carved Fox eyes on the back, to look inside my heart with their magic sight.
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The meaning was revealed only a few days after.
"Selvatica" is the female word for "wild" in Italian. My mother and grandmas used to say "you are so selvatica!" if you were kinda...on your own and not easy to control.
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Yes. I am reclaiming my being selvatica. My being myself without compromise, even if you don't like it. Not being servile. Not bending out of fear. Wild and true.