An Introduction and Welcome from Ellefolk Gazette
Our journal since 2008, Musings, Usings, and Loose Things, was practically dripping with a deep sincerity for overhaul. It was time for change. Two years of racking the brain, shaking the tree, and tumbling over how on earth to be more transparent from behind the scenes. It has become clear that a journal for this brand, the optimal interpretation, will be best delivered in segments. My hope is that these written words connect you to the intimacy of Under The Root and possibly your own network of undergrowth.
Herbivore Apothecary
Body Movement Visionaries
Sensual Alchemy
Cabinet of Curiosities
Emporium Memoir
Madeleine
Musings of a Curious Observer
Herbivore Apothecary
A segment dedicated to the innate and cherished respect for herbals, holistic medicine, botany, geology, and the methods we find in nature to develop our deeper kinship with it. I will be sharing the covert operations alongside weed walks, recipes, wild harvesting, herbal techniques, plus wild crafting charms and talisman projects.
Body Movement Visionaries
The mythical works of modern dance, cabaret theater, and circus arts, across the globe today and yesterday, will populate this segment. There has been a historical landscape forged by our human desire to imagine an upturned reality using the body as channel and translator. I am sharing images, short films, documentaries, and performance clips in order to highlight as many facets of dance as possible. There are dance companies, performance artists, classes, books, collaborations, generations, and so many more avenues to highlight. With the onset of new technologies, a balance of participants as artists and audiences engage to create environments together. This was the future and it is here now.
Sensual Alchemy
The deeper we hike inside our individual journeys, the more apt we are to devise an allurement with the sentience of all living things. A testament to what it means to be human and not human while dreaming. In the shadows we handshake with psychics. Sensual alchemy is the transformative processes, or collaborative steps, while participating in the continuity of consciousness. It is tender, fiery, intimate, ayurvedic, grounded, patient and passionate.
Cabinet of Curiosities
While the corners of the studio are seething with answers, it seems important to write about the many variables that come into play. Each handcrafted good has been steeped in brews of specifics before they become manufactured into existence. They are fabricated from particular ideas and notions and influence of curiosity.
The objective here is to share a peek into the closet: the process involved, decision-making turns, materials used, behind the name meaning, and miscellaneous tidbits of distinction. In the end, we still venture onward towards artful conception with the twitch of the witch.
Emporium Memoir
In this over-populated world of information heavy, product overload, news explosions, media grabbers, and monsters of distractions, this is my shared place of private exploration into the depths of becoming. If only for mere moments, are we not comforted with those domains of exclusive interpretations between individuals, private library access cards, and the one hundred year old wood tables to sit at and sip warm beverages while we read together? This segment is built with the intention to generate a dialogue and experience, a treehouse of stories and solutions as seen through my personal perspective.
Madeleine
This dressform considers me a friend and while it may not inhabit a human body, the respect for one another is the same. Madeleine has adventures and now has a pride of friends to adventure with.
Musings from a Curious Observer
This segment is a bit more secluded, where the door opens to the holographic universe. A brief and informative arena that hopes to give a synopsis of likes, dislikes, considerations, lists, alternatives, mistakes and solutions.
