Not just a scroll past or a “save for later” situation, but to actually have it become a part of your everyday. To see something enough that it becomes a part of your space and starts to shape a feeling; maybe even becoming a quiet part of you.

For a long time, much of my work has lived on screens. As a photographer for the last 14+ years, I take the photos, edit, deliver in a gallery, and there they are. If I’m lucky enough, I get to see them printed in my clients’ homes or on Christmas Cards. And as time has gone on, I’ve gotten better about printing my own photos of my kids for frames, the fridge, prints strewn about the house. But the moments from travel and everyday musings of the way I see the world? Those deserve to live off a device too.

A handful of years ago, I sold a few of my prints on this very website. Clearly I felt this pull long ago and while it was received well by some close loved ones (aka the only ones who knew my website name and graciously wanted to support), it still didn’t live in a way that felt fully formed or conducive long term.

I knew I wanted something even more tangible–things that felt true to the way I saw the world, that could be held in your hands to wear or used to adorn a sacred space. I see this as an ever-growing collection of tangible pieces rooted that are deeply rooted in feeling. As pieces that reflect different facets of who we are: the grounded parts, the expansive parts, the softer parts, the still-becoming parts. This is the very foundation of what Sarahtonin is about to me, and now introducing it as visual language that people can step into.