Hello! My name is Siri and I am the heart and the hands behind Mirrored Iris.
Crafting and creating art has always been a big part of my life. I grew up in a household that was all about Doing-It-Yourself and making art. My mother had a sewing business, where she made and sold quilted clothing and other items, had owned a toy store selling the puppets and other toys she made, and was always working on creating something and encouraging my siblings and I to create as well. We even had a rule in our house that you could only watch TV if you were making some art or craft at the same time. Having grown up in an environment with these values, they were easily carried right along into my adulthood. Making beautiful and inspiring things nourishes me deeply, and is an essential part of maintaining balance in my life.
Crafting and creating art has always been a big part of my life. I grew up in a household that was all about Doing-It-Yourself and making art. My mother had a sewing business, where she made and sold quilted clothing and other items, had owned a toy store selling the puppets and other toys she made, and was always working on creating something and encouraging my siblings and I to create as well. We even had a rule in our house that you could only watch TV if you were making some art or craft at the same time. Having grown up in an environment with these values, they were easily carried right along into my adulthood. Making beautiful and inspiring things nourishes me deeply, and is an essential part of maintaining balance in my life.
Over the years I've delved into many different modalities for expressing my creative energy, from drawing to sewing, collage, embroidery, photography, knitting and more, and now I've landed on making jewelry. Playing with image, color and texture has always intrigued me and I'm excited to be discovering how to continue that play with new-to-me materials, such as stone, metal, ceramic, wood and glass.
Fine detail has always been a theme of my work, whatever form it takes. Tiny tight designs in my drawings, precise and intricate stitching in embroidery, up-close photographs of the most minuscule aspects of nature, etc. Right now, jewelry-making is appealing to this side of my creativity and continuing that theme as I work with small beads and wire, using miniature pliers and other small tools to bring together many intricate elements to create each piece. Life seems to be repeating a message to me about how much beauty can be experienced through the very small aspects of our world, and that it's the littlest things in life that have the biggest secrets to reveal.
Fine detail has always been a theme of my work, whatever form it takes. Tiny tight designs in my drawings, precise and intricate stitching in embroidery, up-close photographs of the most minuscule aspects of nature, etc. Right now, jewelry-making is appealing to this side of my creativity and continuing that theme as I work with small beads and wire, using miniature pliers and other small tools to bring together many intricate elements to create each piece. Life seems to be repeating a message to me about how much beauty can be experienced through the very small aspects of our world, and that it's the littlest things in life that have the biggest secrets to reveal.