We have set up a go fund me for amara to have the beautiful funeral they wanted, returning as a gift to the earth 🌳🦴🌹🍄🌿🪵🐚🌑🪨🍂🍁💫💧🍎🌸🪶🥀🌲

I don’t have the log in for their link tree and wanted to leave it up, so I’ve put the link in my bio instead at @sophieamacklin ❤️ and you can also find it at gofundme.com/f/supportingamarahollowbones 🌲 thank you friends.

We have set up a go fund me for amara to have the beautiful funeral they wanted, returning as a gift to the earth 🌳🦴🌹🍄🌿🪵🐚🌑🪨🍂🍁💫💧🍎🌸🪶🥀🌲

I don’t have the log in for their link tree and wanted to leave it up, so I’ve put the link in my bio instead at @sophieamacklin ❤️ and you can also find it at gofundme.com/f/supportingamarahollowbones 🌲 thank you friends.

Hi, this is sophie again with another update about amara. This picture is from a super sweet solstice hair cutting ritual, where we took turns braiding amaras hair and then they reached back and cut each one off themself, because they’re amara. harpo and aja also cut their hair off in hot hair summer solidarity and they all actually looked amazing!

So, after meeting with the stand-in oncologist last week, amara decided to wait until next week to start trodelvy (chemo) so that they can also be a part of the study for the new drug, magrolimab. It was pretty upsetting that the mix up with ordering amaras labs happened, and that it had such big consequences, but in the end it actually felt right to wait a week. It gives amara’s wound another week to heal, and it gives time for the radiation side effects to wear off some more. If for some reason the paperwork isn't in order for her to start the trial this friday, the plan is to do the chemo anyway, as it seems like leaving it another week is too risky. She had a pretty quiet weekend, but with growing discomfort from the fluid build up in her abdomen, and generally not feeling too great for the last couple of days. She had paracentesis and thoracentesis today (draining fluid from the abdomen and lungs) which seems like some relief. She’s been super sleepy since. Her nausea (which has been a big issue the last few weeks) has been improving though and she’s been able to hold down more food, so that’s been good. There has been a big influx of friends in the last month which has been so nice. We’re hoping more come for July! Thanks for following along and caring about our friend ❤️

once again a twisted turn of events… the study point person forgot to get a test done that was crucial to start on friday. so just an hour and a half ago i got a call saying i could start just the trodelvy on friday but l if i start i will be completely disqualified from the study. or i wait a week or two for the results, if i can stay healthy enough. and of course my oncologist is away on vacation right now and not easily reachable to discuss this with.
so, more decisions and processes and guessing with the fates without all the information available to me. i may start just friday and ditch the trial. i may wait a week or two and do the trial. but if i wait- in that week or two it’s possible things could decline and i would no longer be eligible. it’s a lot.

once again a twisted turn of events… the study point person forgot to get a test done that was crucial to start on friday. so just an hour and a half ago i got a call saying i could start just the trodelvy on friday but l if i start i will be completely disqualified from the study. or i wait a week or two for the results, if i can stay healthy enough. and of course my oncologist is away on vacation right now and not easily reachable to discuss this with.
so, more decisions and processes and guessing with the fates without all the information available to me. i may start just friday and ditch the trial. i may wait a week or two and do the trial. but if i wait- in that week or two it’s possible things could decline and i would no longer be eligible. it’s a lot.

Hi, this is Sophie with an update of what's been going on with amara in the last week or so. This picture is from when we went to the lake after their first radiation appointment a couple of weeks ago! 🌾💧🌾.

It’s been a pretty eventful time recently. You might have seen their posts on friday when they were back in the hospital and had a sepsis scare, which thankfully was a misdiagnosis!

A few days before that, they had been experiencing some pretty intense side effects from the medications they were on, and lowered the doses of morphine to try and lessen the intensity of the side effects. amara also starting to notice increasing fluid in their abdomen over the last couple months that has only gotten worse and more uncomfortable. They went to the hospital and had an ultrasound that confirmed some fluid in the lungs abdomen, though a relatively smaller amount. The med adjustment has gone fairly well, and has fohund some relief in getting a litre of fluid drained from from their lung. In the hospital amara had a couple of really hard days - feeling really low energy, nauseous, sad and uncomfortable. Whilst they were in there they started having a very elevated heart rate (127) that has mostly stayed elevated since, but is now down to the low 100’s. They were very sleepy on those days which was probably from the racing heart. They did manage to get discharged in time for their radiation appointment last tuesday though!

They seemed a bit better the next morning, but still felt really bloated and slow and still. In a real lapse of care from the hospital, their follow up doctors appointment didn’t happen, because they realized it wouldn't be covered by amaras insurance, and they just dropped them, which was hard on multiple levels. They didn’t call, and didn’t refer her to anyone else, and they were also the only number we had for ongoing care when we left the hospital. We’re STILL in the process of arranging their new primary care doctor, and trying to get the web to feel much tighter on the medical establishment side. It’s been honestly kind of incredible how many times amara has apparently fallen through the cracks between different doctors and medical groups etc.

One of the hardest people to get a hold of in the last couple of weeks has been amara’s oncologist, which has really been pretty stressful. We finally heard from her when we were driving home from radiation, via a voicemail, and she said that she recommends amara stops the chemo, and moves onto hospice. This suggestion from the oncologist felt pretty heavy and intense. We’ve cried. Amara decided to stop the chemo that night, but is still looking into a second opinion, and also cancer treatment centers, to not leave any stone unturned. though at times it feels impossible and too painful, amara still striving to be here.

The pain has been more relatively under control which is great, though a lot of overall weakness and achiness making daily living really challenging. but these few days there there were pretty rough in terms of discomfort - bouts of nausea and vomiting and diarrhea and this bloated feeling from the fluid accumulating. In amongst the hard news and intense physical discomfort there were also moments of gentle togetherness - reading stories to amara, talking a little bit, cuddling, crying, we watched an amazing episode of we’re here. All pretty quietly.

By Friday evening, amara was feeling really bad and went back to the hospital. Their words at the time “i feel like i’m drowning, i can barely move and i’m carrying around my body like a beached whale, too much pressure, not enough space for air, fluids filling everywhere. dams broken inside. can’t retain any food. Eliots here with me. did a ekg, bunch of blood tests checking for infection. i’m in a lot of pain in my chest on both sides, my heart rate is 122 has been high for a few days. not sure what’s next, tried to get another thorocentesis but could get appointment. maybe it can happen through ER. i wonder about draining other fluids. found out from last thorocentesis the fluid is malignant, meaning full of cancerous cells.”

Amara ended up getting both thoracentesis (draining liquid in lung) and pericentesis (draining fluid from abdomen) the morning of june 5 - about a liter from each. Experienced some relief! They hung out a bit to make sure nothing was off, had some passing pain at the thoracentesis site, a few shooting pains (likely a nerve) and tightness in their chest, vitals looked okay. Amara was eating & holding food down which is great. Amara opted not to get the drain put in because it would make swimming harder/more risky and that is a very high priority! So the plan is to schedule future thoracentesis procedures regularly, and hopefully not have to go back to the ER to get it.

Today amara met with people for a consultation for hospice care, but it turned out that it wasn’t a good option for where they’re at right now. It seems like it would stop them being able to easily access certain things they need (like thoracentesis) and generally make things more complicated in a way that wouldn’t actually provide more care than they are going to be getting from home nursing and friends. This afternoon they seemed bright, clear, a little slow, very lucid, and feeling much more comfortable in their body after the thoracentesis. Amara is now waiting for a thorocentesis on the left side this morning and this is where things are at! ❤️

keeping me overnight going to give albumin iv. apparently all this fluid could be my blood vessels too thin and leaking out fluids into everywhere else but not hydrating me. so that’s supposed to help absorb into better places . can’t do thorocentesis tonight. then discussion to insert a drain into my side so i can drain out lung fluids. will be a surgical procedure to be discussed with oncologist and new primary care doctor whenever i’m actually assigned one. wtf

keeping me overnight going to give albumin iv. apparently all this fluid could be my blood vessels too thin and leaking out fluids into everywhere else but not hydrating me. so that’s supposed to help absorb into better places . can’t do thorocentesis tonight. then discussion to insert a drain into my side so i can drain out lung fluids. will be a surgical procedure to be discussed with oncologist and new primary care doctor whenever i’m actually assigned one. wtf

is there a clear line between the fight, the hope, the belief, the positive thinking and the acceptance and surrender to death? i struggle with knowing how to walk between these worlds. when i am choices for my life in a future it feels impossible and sometimes a waste of time. other times it feels necessary- to have something to live for. many say that’s what keeps us going - our dreams, our purpose, our drive. many moments, i long to stay here. many moments i am desperate for it to be over- when i’m unsteady on my feet, when my words don’t make sense, when i can’t feel the love and the beauty of the world around me because i’m experiencing so much pain.

i’ve heard of radical remissions. i’ve heard of people being in hospice for stage 4 and something turns around and they’re still here. and i’ve heard of people suddenly getting seizures from metastasis in their brain and they’re dead in a week. i don’t know how close i was to my lung collapsing yesterday. people live like this for years and i don’t know how. i don’t know how to keep being both so strong, and so weak.

there’s no cure. no answers. no agreed upon timeline. yet i have practitioners of all kinds saying it’s possible i can make it. there are more options. others are encouraging me to prepare for end of life preparations and just to enjoy my life and that i’m dying soon. those are two ends of the spectrum of a disease process called “manageable” by many. manageable like this? ache and discomfort and loss of mobility and hospital visits and fluid in my lungs and needing help getting in and out of bed and endless appointments and shocking decline? is that manageable? for many, it is. they don’t want to leave their children or family and they say it’s worth it. i’ve heard stories of people going through months of medical horror and then come through disease free but forever changed for better and for “worse.” whichever path i choose right now i don’t know if am i giving up, if i am still living in integrity, or am in denial? is allowing the conventional interventions to support me helping me live more fully? or is it distracting me from a beautiful death with dignity?

i’ve not been responding well to the abraxane and keytruda. my left breast is now hardening and sore, liver hard and swollen, im so uncomfortable and exhausted and in pain. oncologist isn’t sounding too hopeful, said it’s because we didn’t give me high enough dose of the yew but also that by the time we started that things had evolved and become more complex and are less responsive. i know some people respond well to the low dose. i didn’t. even once we raised it. i also seem to have a curious resistance to many types of medicines- like opioids, sleep pills, ketamine… so i suppose it makes sense maybe i need higher doses of anything? i don’t know. this is all just a terrifying mess.

my liver enzymes are elevated as are the CA125 and CA27-29 cancer markers.

we are changing the plan for a bit. i will take a pill twice daily, called xeloda and do spot-radiation on my chest daily for a few weeks to try and get some pain relief. fuck. this is all very weird, i feel totally disoriented and just SO tired from not sleeping, and tired from doing all this work, and tired from the pain. it’s really not looking so good for me, y’all. i don’t know how much time i’ve got but it’s not seeming like very long.

to all the sunsets, all the sunrises, all the stars, all the leaves, lightning, storms, snow, lakes, puddles, hills, birdsong, blooming flowers, water rushing: i keep wanting to tell you- i’m sorry for leaving so soon.

i wanted to stay i wanted to be here

from shock to grief to worry to horror to terror

to live on the other side of hope and prayer

aching crying grieving screaming

please hold me through this

please sing my songs

this is living with my dying

is there a clear line between the fight, the hope, the belief, the positive thinking and the acceptance and surrender to death? i struggle with knowing how to walk between these worlds. when i am choices for my life in a future it feels impossible and sometimes a waste of time. other times it feels necessary- to have something to live for. many say that’s what keeps us going - our dreams, our purpose, our drive. many moments, i long to stay here. many moments i am desperate for it to be over- when i’m unsteady on my feet, when my words don’t make sense, when i can’t feel the love and the beauty of the world around me because i’m experiencing so much pain.

i’ve heard of radical remissions. i’ve heard of people being in hospice for stage 4 and something turns around and they’re still here. and i’ve heard of people suddenly getting seizures from metastasis in their brain and they’re dead in a week. i don’t know how close i was to my lung collapsing yesterday. people live like this for years and i don’t know how. i don’t know how to keep being both so strong, and so weak.

there’s no cure. no answers. no agreed upon timeline. yet i have practitioners of all kinds saying it’s possible i can make it. there are more options. others are encouraging me to prepare for end of life preparations and just to enjoy my life and that i’m dying soon. those are two ends of the spectrum of a disease process called “manageable” by many. manageable like this? ache and discomfort and loss of mobility and hospital visits and fluid in my lungs and needing help getting in and out of bed and endless appointments and shocking decline? is that manageable? for many, it is. they don’t want to leave their children or family and they say it’s worth it. i’ve heard stories of people going through months of medical horror and then come through disease free but forever changed for better and for “worse.” whichever path i choose right now i don’t know if am i giving up, if i am still living in integrity, or am in denial? is allowing the conventional interventions to support me helping me live more fully? or is it distracting me from a beautiful death with dignity?

the last many many days for as long as i can remember now have been tedious and painful. there have been a few brief and sweet moments i’m grateful for. but truth is every night i cry tears of frustration and anger and boredom and pain. when i fall asleep i wake up crying in pain. crying in frustration and hopelessness. waking up is another chore of a day. i remember writing a while ago how much i yearned to stay here. the truth is, that’s changed. i haven’t been thinking of staying anymore for a while. i haven’t been happy. i’m lonely. i haven’t felt enough touch, enough real physical love. it’s here and it’s there. but doing this without a real baseline of support is awful and feels stupid and useless. i don’t really know who i am living for right now. loving words and memories and gifts are sweet and wonderful but they don’t hit into the depths of support of what i truly feel i need to want to stay here. family is real. i didn’t realize just how different and bleak it is to not have the physical support of family or partner in this. i know so many people out there wish it were different for me, and i try and tell myself i am worthy, i deserve better but it doesn’t really land. in many ways i’ve been chanting that to myself my whole life just to hold onto some sense of self worth to try and beat out the crushing sense of worthlessness that is so overpowering coming from a neglectful family. it’s hard to write about, i don’t want to cause drama i can’t manage but it also doesn’t serve me or those who care about me if i stay quiet. so i’ll generalize it a bit. it is profound, how much love there can be all around us yet how much it is eclipsed when the love from those we “should” receive it from is so absent, toxic, witheld or otherwise. i’ve been facing this in a few different ways with friends or partners or family members and as i progress into cycles of pain and despair i can’t just lift myself out of it like i once could. the fortitude, the resilience i have worked so hard to cultivate, the strong sense of self, it crumbles and devolves with all these constant trials.

i watch myself as a witness how much my pain increases and my will to live decreases when i feel ignored, written off, neglected or just not supported by those who i expect it from. and i know that’s the deep work. that’s the healing from the core family wounds. but that is nearly impossible work to overcome when we are at our best - most resourced, supported, safe, healthy, grounded. i am peeled away. i am raw. and these festering wounds are beautiful in their ways- here they are. i can see way has been covered up. i can see these horrible horrible wounds i have carried through my bones and blood and genes. i have seen how much damage it’s all done but how strong i have been. but now, stripped raw by constant and searing pain, i’m totally unable to hold it together, to deny it anymore, to tell myself the story any of it has ever been okay. and so perhaps this is the reckoning now. bloody and bursting tumours pushing against me, pushing out of me, loud, stinging, bleeding. i didn’t deserve any of this or ask for this. but it is when i am in this time of greatest need and despair and pain i am able to slough away so so much toxicity and abuse i was excusing and enabling all this time because i truly can no longer bear it. and so i wail and scream and it is miraculous. this reckoning.
and so too has poured forth so so much love. and i yearn to feel it. i yearn to find the ways to stop this burning aching distraction of wanting what i could never get from the alcoholics and the abusers and narcissists and to truly truly let in the love that is absolutely everywhere. the love i know is there. the love i have felt from the wholeness of all the universe. i know i have experienced it, through so much of my life. but right now and for so many uncountable days i’ve been dragged across burning concrete. it’s consistent. it’s wearing. and i know i have loved this dear and beautiful and vast and nurturing world but i feel so so far away from it, and i am so full of rage about how much can be taken away from me from the triggers of childhood wounds from people who i know shouldn’t matter anymore. but it gets to me. and it got to me and i feel my life leaking and sucking out of me by these scathing patriarchal wounds that i know “shouldn’t” affect me so. but i want to be honest about it. i want to be honest about how i can’t bear so much of it anymore. i don’t love it here right now. i didn’t want this for my life. i saw a newborn leaving the hospital today as went in to get treatment and i broke down. i don’t care about this. i don’t want this. i miss my dreams, my creativity, my inspiration, my plans, my songs, my imagination. i don’t want this. i’m broken hearted. disappointed. lonely. uninspired. bored. mind blowingly distracted by pain and i just dream and dream of swimming away with my seal kin, in the kelp, in the cold, and in the deep.

had a little too mulch fun getting help from @j9pants and @ibnicklason and a few more friends moving this pile. okay i actually totally didn’t help at all but they all helped so mulch and facilitated me playing one of my favourite games ever. thank you

the last many many days for as long as i can remember now have been tedious and painful. there have been a few brief and sweet moments i’m grateful for. but truth is every night i cry tears of frustration and anger and boredom and pain. when i fall asleep i wake up crying in pain. crying in frustration and hopelessness. waking up is another chore of a day. i remember writing a while ago how much i yearned to stay here. the truth is, that’s changed. i haven’t been thinking of staying anymore for a while. i haven’t been happy. i’m lonely. i haven’t felt enough touch, enough real physical love. it’s here and it’s there. but doing this without a real baseline of support is awful and feels stupid and useless. i don’t really know who i am living for right now. loving words and memories and gifts are sweet and wonderful but they don’t hit into the depths of support of what i truly feel i need to want to stay here. family is real. i didn’t realize just how different and bleak it is to not have the physical support of family or partner in this. i know so many people out there wish it were different for me, and i try and tell myself i am worthy, i deserve better but it doesn’t really land. in many ways i’ve been chanting that to myself my whole life just to hold onto some sense of self worth to try and beat out the crushing sense of worthlessness that is so overpowering coming from a neglectful family. it’s hard to write about, i don’t want to cause drama i can’t manage but it also doesn’t serve me or those who care about me if i stay quiet. so i’ll generalize it a bit. it is profound, how much love there can be all around us yet how much it is eclipsed when the love from those we “should” receive it from is so absent, toxic, witheld or otherwise. i’ve been facing this in a few different ways with friends or partners or family members and as i progress into cycles of pain and despair i can’t just lift myself out of it like i once could. the fortitude, the resilience i have worked so hard to cultivate, the strong sense of self, it crumbles and devolves with all these constant trials.

i watch myself as a witness how much my pain increases and my will to live decreases when i feel ignored, written off, neglected or just not supported by those who i expect it from. and i know that’s the deep work. that’s the healing from the core family wounds. but that is nearly impossible work to overcome when we are at our best - most resourced, supported, safe, healthy, grounded. i am peeled away. i am raw. and these festering wounds are beautiful in their ways- here they are. i can see way has been covered up. i can see these horrible horrible wounds i have carried through my bones and blood and genes. i have seen how much damage it’s all done but how strong i have been. but now, stripped raw by constant and searing pain, i’m totally unable to hold it together, to deny it anymore, to tell myself the story any of it has ever been okay. and so perhaps this is the reckoning now. bloody and bursting tumours pushing against me, pushing out of me, loud, stinging, bleeding. i didn’t deserve any of this or ask for this. but it is when i am in this time of greatest need and despair and pain i am able to slough away so so much toxicity and abuse i was excusing and enabling all this time because i truly can no longer bear it. and so i wail and scream and it is miraculous. this reckoning.
and so too has poured forth so so much love. and i yearn to feel it. i yearn to find the ways to stop this burning aching distraction of wanting what i could never get from the alcoholics and the abusers and narcissists and to truly truly let in the love that is absolutely everywhere. the love i know is there. the love i have felt from the wholeness of all the universe. i know i have experienced it, through so much of my life. but right now and for so many uncountable days i’ve been dragged across burning concrete. it’s consistent. it’s wearing. and i know i have loved this dear and beautiful and vast and nurturing world but i feel so so far away from it, and i am so full of rage about how much can be taken away from me from the triggers of childhood wounds from people who i know shouldn’t matter anymore. but it gets to me. and it got to me and i feel my life leaking and sucking out of me by these scathing patriarchal wounds that i know “shouldn’t” affect me so. but i want to be honest about it. i want to be honest about how i can’t bear so much of it anymore. i don’t love it here right now. i didn’t want this for my life. i saw a newborn leaving the hospital today as went in to get treatment and i broke down. i don’t care about this. i don’t want this. i miss my dreams, my creativity, my inspiration, my plans, my songs, my imagination. i don’t want this. i’m broken hearted. disappointed. lonely. uninspired. bored. mind blowingly distracted by pain and i just dream and dream of swimming away with my seal kin, in the kelp, in the cold, and in the deep.

this is all just to say: i caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror just now and i thought to myself “wow i look so damn good- look at this colour in my face- this hair- this outfit- how could i possibly be dying?” ALSO we were deeply grieving my pet leech who i thought i killed by death of pickling in overly salted water. it was a really sad afternoon. but THEN @aganaq my hero, my prince, my girl king, monster champion suggested we put her in a bowl of water, even though we were still convinced she was dead for real. while i was in the bathroom washing some rags and looking at my outfit i noticed she was moving!!!! and i put her back in with howard the leech and they are now taking care of each other again -and i promised to never pickle them again.

this is all just to say: i caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror just now and i thought to myself “wow i look so damn good- look at this colour in my face- this hair- this outfit- how could i possibly be dying?” ALSO we were deeply grieving my pet leech who i thought i killed by death of pickling in overly salted water. it was a really sad afternoon. but THEN @aganaq my hero, my prince, my girl king, monster champion suggested we put her in a bowl of water, even though we were still convinced she was dead for real. while i was in the bathroom washing some rags and looking at my outfit i noticed she was moving!!!! and i put her back in with howard the leech and they are now taking care of each other again -and i promised to never pickle them again.

this evenings thoughts from within the hyperbaric oxygen chamber…

last night i was in so much pain i thought i surely must be dying soon. maybe pain does that to people- makes us think we are dying, or want to , just to escape it. i don’t know, i keep having days that are the worst pain i’ve ever felt, then i have another pain episode that tops the last. my care providers reflect to me that i have a super high pain tolerance, too. there are some possible explanations for the heightened pain- the yew/abraxane treatment i had earlier. also that i *just* learned that cannabis is contraindicated with immunotherapy, so when i would have taken my next dose for pain management i didn’t, and just took the opiates. and in the absence of the cannabis- i learned just how incredibly effective it is for pain. i have since gotten my pain managed and am feeling much better. but last night was rough and i am so new to opiates i had no idea what more i could take safely and had to wait far too long for late night on call doctors to get back to me.

another way i think of this is that it was just amazing to witness my experience in a body and to feel these pain signals from my body- and the fear and unraveling worries that comes with it, with the new understanding why my hips and back have been so sore. “so that’s what’s going on. there are cancer cells within my bones.” what does that even mean? i’ve experienced what it’s like in my breast and that made some sort of sense but in my bones? are the cancerous cells just going to take over and replace the healthy bone-parts or is it something that grows on top of it all? i don’t know if suddenly my hip will just fail and i won’t be able to walk anymore. already, i can barely bend over and tie my shoes. i don’t know if or when the tumor in the vertebrae will push against my nerves and i will lose control of my bowels and bladder or something else.

i had worked hard and believed and hoped that the disease process was just local recurrence. that the swelling and fluid gathering in my abdomen was just lymph fluid that couldn’t make it through the blocked nodes. the last few weeks there have been rapid and intense changes - does metastasis happen like that? do the cells just pop over in a new place some night and then just explode? my awareness of it started with a little backache that wouldn’t go away. i’m sure there are people who have some kinds of answers for all this. there must be plenty of research papers all about explaining this. but i’m just in my body and in my thoughts and imagination experiencing these strange terrifying wonders. these metastases . i wonder what set it off- was there a moment? bones first? liver first? same moment?

last night i realized with a brutal crash of reality that at this point, where everything is at, that i’m relying on the yew, immunotherapy and synergistic therapies as sort of my last line. that if this therapy that i’m on doesn’t “work,” and doesn’t “work” really soon, then i could be walking into death quite soon. it takes a while for these medicines to have an effect. it’s certainly the strangest most high-stakes race i’ve ever been in- will these medicines come into effect at a faster rate than the disease progression?!

my oncologist who could theoretically answer a lot of these questions is travelling in patagonia right now. so i can’t talk to her about all this. i am totally annoyed by this- she goes away for 3 weeks and i didn’t know til i called in with my results wanting to talk with her. it would have been considerate if she had given us all a heads up.

there are still “parp inhibitors” which i haven’t yet worked with. perhaps we would try that if these therapies don’t show the response we are hoping for. it takes a few months to see. and yeah, there are other things out there that could be really effective but they feel (financially) out of reach which is a BRUTAL reality to face that there is potentially better and more effective care that so many of us can’t access.

i’m freaked out, fascinated, in disbelief. my mind is spinning with questions and in a dynamic and rapid shifting and mixing and integrating of denial and acceptance and fighting for life. i have moments of thinking of worst case scenarios, then thinking of plans for a few years down the road, then thinking of getting my affairs in order, then seeing myself as an old person, then seeing myself dying in a few months, then seeing myself in a bunch more months laughing at all of this and saying “hell yeah i survived this and am in full remission, what a weird time that was.” yes i have a very active mind, and any and all of this is possible.

it’s not as simple as the advice of just “do what i love and find happiness.” that’s great advice for some, maybe, but happiness for me is so much about dreaming and making things happen and planting seeds and working toward something. of course there is so much joy i feel in just living and experiencing- this morning- after i got the pain managed and had a few hours of sleep- i went on a bike ride and heard such a loud goose. i was looking for it and there, up in a grand valley oak were two geese perching like eagles or owls or vultures , way up in the branches, scolding! i laughed so much, i have never seen geese just sitting up in a tree like that honking. i loved this moment and the days are full of them! i don’t really know what the nurses and palliative care team mean exactly when they say to me to think about what makes me happy and to really focus on that. they say it with a tone that is gentle and not over bearing but screams: “you’re dying soon, so do the fun stuff now and see the people you love.”

i try and take that in but i’m also sort of blocked to it. it’s not fulfilling for me to stop working toward something and just give in totally to pure experience and feeling. like i just feel like there is still so much more for me to do. i’m not done yet !!! nowhere close! as i keep writing right now, it gives me the chance to reflect that no one has actually told me what my happiness has to look like. it can look like writing and sewing. it can also look like research. and thrift store hunting for the beautiful new place i’m moving into. and geese of course. and turkeys. i do want to feel more ease, calibrate this sense of “fighting” so hard so i can let go a little more and find balance in all this doing and not let life pass by me like a surprise. i pray for the sense of knowing when to let go and when to hold on. to trust when to slip into the currents and be carried and when it’s the time to rally everything and swim upstream to get where i need to.

i’ve been too worn out to write much, but my sweet shawna wrote something for me to share with you all. in short: i had the most wonderful, fulfilling, beautiful time on the klamath last week and it meant the world to me to be back up there and feel everyone’s love. and, i’m in a lot of pain, and not sleeping and learned that opiates don’t work for me and were making the pain worse!!!! so now i am stuck with pretty inadequate pain management but at least nothing that is hurting me more. i don’t really know what to do and things are rough. special thanks to zina, jimmy, heron, and aganaq for staying up with me through all these sleepless nights while i cried in pain. and this is a photo of me with jada and a redbud sporting my parasol to protect my now even-more-photo-sensitive skin. shawna’s full, detailed update can be found in the gofund me link in my bio and i’ll share it here pieced together in the comments. life is beautiful y’all. precious and incredible and just amazing. every moment. every flower. savour it. i’m thinking a lot about leaving this beautiful beautiful world sometime soon. and that’s okay. xo.
 
Beloved kin of Amara- Thank you for your ongoing support of our deer one in this time – your love, prayers and connection to Amara’s journey are very much felt and so deeply appreciated.  
 
Amara has been moving through a very full time of many types of feelings and experiences these last couple of weeks. They were able to spend some sweet time with some of their dear people for a beautiful visit back home in the Klamath-Salmon, which was deeply nourishing and reminded Amara of how much they need to be back up there. Amara truly felt how very loved they are, and how important that loving energy is for them to feel in person and in community.   
Over the last two weeks, Amara has been experiencing increasingly unbearable pain. For a while, the immense pain was in the left hip. However, the last number of days the pain has been in chest, neck, shoulder, arm and back. The intensity of the pain has been keeping Amara up in the nights.

my next treatment with the yew medicine- abraxane- is today in a few hours. here are some photos of my pet/ct scan i got to look at today. can see it all lit up in the bones in my hip in the first photo, and also on L5 vertebrae. cancerous cells are “hyper metabolic” meaning they have a heightened metabolism and uptake this dye more rapidly. so i got to see this pretty clear picture of how much is going on, especially in my hip. not pictured here is my liver which had a bunch of glowing spots as well. based on the vertebrae being close to my spine, they’ve told me to watch out for numbness and also sudden incontinence if it were to push on or pinch my spinal nerves. damn.

i have been in a lot of pain, it’s hard to bend over, get dressed, put on shoes, change positions. i feel this radiating pulsing pain and strange weakness through my whole lower back and especially in my left side in my hip socket. so, this is what that looks like inside.

i’ve been in shock since friday, cycling through something that might be called denial and also anger and sadness. it is hard to believe. i don’t like it and i don’t understand and i want it to be different and i want this new intense medicine to “work” and i want it to work better than expected and for all this to go away.
some of what i call “denial” is also probably good for me. it means letting go, in a way. and it also means “hell no i’m not accepting this is terminal right now.” and maybe that’s because i’ve sat with that a lot already, at various times these last 10 months. so right now i don’t want to or have to accept that. i don’t expect myself / don’t want to go into full on “denial” and ignore what’s happening so that i’m not present with my body and my process and my life and my death. but for now, this is just unbelievable and i’m okay with not knowing how to believe any of it. just for today. or this week.

hard news. based on preliminary scan report from yesterdays pet/ct scan there is metastasis to my liver and bones. bone areas: t8 vertebra, scapula, left hipbone - ileac and also femur where it comes into pelvis. probably explains my horrible lower back pain that’s only been getting worse.
also metastasis bilaterally in collar bones. liver shows numerous lesions. fuck this is so hard and scary and confusing and i don’t like it. what the actual fuck is happening.

i’ve made a bunch more cards- with some different drawings- like one of my favourites, these black vultures. mounted on recycled brown kraft cardstock, white recycled cotton/paper cardstock, and cream. ❤️ links in my bio to take you to my store! and in the next couple weeks i hope to have some new colour ones !

my next treatment with the yew medicine- abraxane- is today in a few hours. here are some photos of my pet/ct scan i got to look at today. can see it all lit up in the bones in my hip in the first photo, and also on L5 vertebrae. cancerous cells are “hyper metabolic” meaning they have a heightened metabolism and uptake this dye more rapidly. so i got to see this pretty clear picture of how much is going on, especially in my hip. not pictured here is my liver which had a bunch of glowing spots as well. based on the vertebrae being close to my spine, they’ve told me to watch out for numbness and also sudden incontinence if it were to push on or pinch my spinal nerves. damn.

i have been in a lot of pain, it’s hard to bend over, get dressed, put on shoes, change positions. i feel this radiating pulsing pain and strange weakness through my whole lower back and especially in my left side in my hip socket. so, this is what that looks like inside.

i’ve been in shock since friday, cycling through something that might be called denial and also anger and sadness. it is hard to believe. i don’t like it and i don’t understand and i want it to be different and i want this new intense medicine to “work” and i want it to work better than expected and for all this to go away.
some of what i call “denial” is also probably good for me. it means letting go, in a way. and it also means “hell no i’m not accepting this is terminal right now.” and maybe that’s because i’ve sat with that a lot already, at various times these last 10 months. so right now i don’t want to or have to accept that. i don’t expect myself / don’t want to go into full on “denial” and ignore what’s happening so that i’m not present with my body and my process and my life and my death. but for now, this is just unbelievable and i’m okay with not knowing how to believe any of it. just for today. or this week.

tomorrow, march 15th i receive my first infusions of yew medicine and monoclonal antibodies to address the recurrence and metastasis in skin and nodes and systemically! these medicines are known conventionally as “abraxane” chemotherapy and “keytruda” aka “pembrolizumab” immunotherapy. but i call to the yew medicine to come through by name, do her work of healing and immortality, poison, medicine. i’ll be working with the yew-medicine at a lower than standard dose (1/3) which has shown to be very effective and potentially with less harmful and uncomfortable side effects. i don’t have much in me to write more right now ; i’m tired, i’ve been experiencing a lot of pain in numerous places and a whole bunch of lymph issues in my arm and into my chest, ribs, abdomen it’s strange and uncomfortable and i concerning.
think of me tomorrow and send me strength as i walk into this next realm of healing and medicine that can be quite physically taxing.

i am told to expect fatigue, nausea, bone and joint pain, hair loss, tingling and or numbness in hands and feet. for the hair loss and hands/feet stuff i will be wearing an iced hat, and iced gloves and socks to decrease vascularity in those areas. i have been fasting today and will continue tomorrow and the day after and intend to fast for the three days surrounding treatments going forward as it’s shown to increase the efficacy of the medicine.

there are other things i am continuing to work with to naturally manage symptoms and side effects as well as to work synergistically to increase the effects of these medicines.

all this and i’m moving into a new place april 1st. it’s beautiful and i’m stoked for this new place outside of santa rosa, closer to friends and a lot of my appointments. though moving is a big deal and tiring especially through all this!!! and am looking for a new local support person to hire, starting may.

think good thoughts for me, send me strength and prayers and songs and movie/book/show/podcast suggestions and presents and treats and jokes and love! i don’t know how i’ll be feeling… might have friends update ! lez see… xoxo

photo by @vfnorton

i'm in a lot of pain and i'm sad. i'm trying to remember to just be cozy with myself. in times when i'm alone i think of giving myself the same cuddles and sweetness someone else would want for me. i've been dragging myself from one day to the next this last little while, and tonight i'm not pretending it's otherwise- i think i've not been fully allowing myself to feel just how hard it's been.

i feel afraid of "giving in" to just feeling bad or wanting to lie around - like i'm supposed to stay positive, stay active, keep on top of things. i want let go of that, not have to be so on top of life and everything. i want to remember that what i'm going through is so so hard, so devastating and scary and confusing that it's really okay to feel scared, and not know what to do, and to not be perfectly on track with everything all the time.

I've been trying so hard. I haven't written of it all but my days are so full of figuring out the foods on the therapeutic diet i'm following, plus changing bandages, applying salves, measuring medicines, using a rife machine, injecting medicines, arm rehab, taking pills at the right time with or between meals, away from this or that, all timed. starting to pack up to move to a place i haven't found yet. lists of phone calls to make, appointments to set. it's so tedious and i'm tired. i'm really tired of talking about cancer and treatments and appointments and housing.

i am reflecting on this and making a note for myself: to be mindful of conversations with loved ones, that i want to talk about things in this world other than updates about my appointments or treatments or housing, or even, just not talk, but just be together. it can be such a difficult balance, with needing care, needing people to know what's going on, needing help with it all, but also really just needing to exist in the company of others where it's just gone for a while - and the present moment is okay. help me sink into that.

tomorrow, march 15th i receive my first infusions of yew medicine and monoclonal antibodies to address the recurrence and metastasis in skin and nodes and systemically! these medicines are known conventionally as “abraxane” chemotherapy and “keytruda” aka “pembrolizumab” immunotherapy. but i call to the yew medicine to come through by name, do her work of healing and immortality, poison, medicine. i’ll be working with the yew-medicine at a lower than standard dose (1/3) which has shown to be very effective and potentially with less harmful and uncomfortable side effects. i don’t have much in me to write more right now ; i’m tired, i’ve been experiencing a lot of pain in numerous places and a whole bunch of lymph issues in my arm and into my chest, ribs, abdomen it’s strange and uncomfortable and i concerning.
think of me tomorrow and send me strength as i walk into this next realm of healing and medicine that can be quite physically taxing.

i am told to expect fatigue, nausea, bone and joint pain, hair loss, tingling and or numbness in hands and feet. for the hair loss and hands/feet stuff i will be wearing an iced hat, and iced gloves and socks to decrease vascularity in those areas. i have been fasting today and will continue tomorrow and the day after and intend to fast for the three days surrounding treatments going forward as it’s shown to increase the efficacy of the medicine.

there are other things i am continuing to work with to naturally manage symptoms and side effects as well as to work synergistically to increase the effects of these medicines.

all this and i’m moving into a new place april 1st. it’s beautiful and i’m stoked for this new place outside of santa rosa, closer to friends and a lot of my appointments. though moving is a big deal and tiring especially through all this!!! and am looking for a new local support person to hire, starting may.

think good thoughts for me, send me strength and prayers and songs and movie/book/show/podcast suggestions and presents and treats and jokes and love! i don’t know how i’ll be feeling… might have friends update ! lez see… xoxo

photo by @vfnorton

I sewed these small prints onto cards that I had gotten made of many of my paintings. I’m really happy how they turned out, so nice to hold these all in a bunch, with the texture of the stitches. I’ve always been a sucker for cards and books and paper crafts and things that stack. This was a sweet simple project today, and I’m listing them now in my store right now. amarahollowbones.com or etsy.com/shop/amarahollowbones gets ya there! thanks for everyone out there sticking with me, offering support, reading my words, taking in my art and my process and just seeing me, and everything.
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I sewed these small prints onto cards that I had gotten made of many of my paintings. I’m really happy how they turned out, so nice to hold these all in a bunch, with the texture of the stitches. I’ve always been a sucker for cards and books and paper crafts and things that stack. This was a sweet simple project today, and I’m listing them now in my store right now. amarahollowbones.com or etsy.com/shop/amarahollowbones gets ya there! thanks for everyone out there sticking with me, offering support, reading my words, taking in my art and my process and just seeing me, and everything.
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when i think of my body decaying into leaves, drying of blood, swelling of gases, rotting to bone, mixing with the plants i have known so sweetly, i am comforted by the stillness of the inevitable. i am not afraid of death. but i don’t want it yet. there’s so much more i yearn to do. so much more to paint, to sew, to draw. more long mornings of sunrises turning to rainbows cast on canvas and cedar walls from homes i have sewn, while holding my dearest mooncat. more mornings, bannock, roses with friends and lovers i adore and others i can’t yet imagine. i need more moon rises, moon sets, venus reflected in bodies of water throughout the lands. the passing of comets and showers of asteroids. swimming in starlight. to feel my feet in cornish and irish and scottish soils, eat apples and berries from my ancestors homelands, to see my breath beneath the northern lights night after night. i want to walk goats again, in love. find the reishi mushrooms while lost deep in the forest. swim in every lake, river, ocean i can imagine, look up to see the sun sparkling through bubbles thousands and thousands of more times. to dance as lovers with all the water bodies i’ve known, again again again. to not have the last time be the last time. not now.

i want to hold babies i parent, lick my uterine waters off their eyelids, inhaling our afterbirth, painting myself with the blood of our birthing.
i want to love in ways i haven’t yet known, i’m just learning how to, now. i have so so many more stories to tell, so so many more songs to learn, songs to catch and give voice to- songs that come through my voice and my voice alone. i want to live the dreams i still have yet to yearn for. i have so many more beautiful beings to adorn, calling to me to tattoo spells out of their skin. there is so much magic more to meet, here. there is so much more to come through me, so much more i have to give, to feel, so much i am just now finding words for. i want to sit at the fire night after night with my beloveds at our crying place, amongst a chorus of whippoorwills in a cedar forest lit by fireflies and feel us belonging together as kindred and family and home. (cont’d in comments)

✨pillow raffle draw✨ Bear wins!! yay! @elderbearry 😘😘😘 thanks for all of you who got a ticket. 41 tickets in all, thanks so much. had some shitty hard news today - 2 different kinds of bad/sad news… so this was fun!

caught the tiniest moon sliver this evening, one of my favourite games- to see if i can catch the tiniest new moon sliver. it’s easier this time of year.
i also got heavy hitting news today. i met with a new oncologist who i like and i feel respects me and will work with me and my choices as best as she can. but she told me the news that based on the involvement of the nodes and where the new lumps have been showing up in my neck that this is now stage 4 cancer.
learned this after my friend ellen, such an amazing badass, died last night of triple negative breast cancer.
there was more about what the doctor said this all means, basically according to them and their treatments and what’s covered etc. there is really not much more time for me walking this earth, according to their stats and standards. even though, aside from new tumours showing up all the time it seems… i’m healthy and strong. what a trip.

we also shared a beautiful moment. this doctor is from india and she told me that in her language, my name means “the one who doesn’t die” or “the one who lives forever.” we had a sweet laugh at connecting about that while working with this news. also there is such power in my name. eternal. the deathless one. undying.

my sweet caregiver and friend, sarah, came with me to the appointment today and is now bringing me home to stay with her a couple days, feed me and sauna me. i thought i’d just wallow but she had a better idea and i’m really into this plan.

i’m gathering ideas, looking at options again, looking at things differently. there are centres out there, in germany and mexico that do a whole ton of treatments for cancers. they are expensive as hell. this is serious what i’m going through and HELLO!! i want to heal and live for more than 2 years though if it’s 2 years i will make it beautiful. i’ll write more about it all when i can. help me find 200k to go to a center and turn this around? write compelling letters to people with money? the centres themselves ? grieve and love and live and celebrate with me. take me on that hot air balloon ride and then cornwall and a picnic under the northern lights. xo

new moon. imbolc. invoke. venus sparkles in the early morning dawn. i will look to the western sky around sunset these coming days to watch the growing sliver of brigid’s moon.
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one of the days i was working with blood root, they came to me. when i’ve put this plant on my skin so so many beings have shown up all around me and i can’t draw them fast enough if i tried. i didn’t intend for this to turn into something like a self portrait… but it turned that way once i saw how the one in the middle was being embraced. i saw myself. worlds turned upside down. held in protection and prayers by dream-seeders. held in a constantly faltering but sustaining balance.

when i made the choice between lumpectomy and mastectomy i felt the strength and protection of the dark mother, holding me and showing me it was right. i saw myself dancing, one breast and one flat. i felt a peace and a strength about going forward with a mastectomy and i believed it would take the cancerous growths out of my body enough for me to get ahead of the rest systemically.

the mastectomy didn’t do all i wanted it to - i am working through a recurrence and now working with black salve and more, and at times i am unsure if i chose the right moment for surgery or would it have been better had i waited so the cancer was knocked back enough to not just show right back up in the inflamed post-surgery environment. i wonder about why i only felt like i had those two choices: this surgery or that surgery, on this day. looking back, there were so many other choices but this is what i knew. i couldn’t see other paths at that moment. what would have happened on another path, all the many outcomes, all this i cannot know and i don’t want to torture my heart by searching back in time.

i am here on this path now. there are so so many questions and possibilities and i try and release the what-ifs and regrets to the wind, knowing throughout my life i have always just done what seemed best at the time, with what i had. we all do. that’s all we can do. we are influenced by so many factors and of course it’s beautiful to strive to change, do better, be the best and wisest versions of ourselves: we are doing our best with what we know. every action has outcomes, impact, consequences. i keep finding more little tumours in so many places. more on my chest. in my neck. hell yes i’m terrified and annoyed. i surrender, and remember we are held by beings and forces so much greater than what we can ever know. This path is mine to walk, this underworld journey, journey through the earth, journey through myself, nightmares and dreams, facing fears and facing all that i yearn to live for.

I embrace the self of me who has made choices that had outcomes or consequences that were painful or unexpected; in this and throughout my life. i walked forward with all the knowing i had at the time and we can’t change the past. i remind myself often that there is healing every step of the way. that healing is just so much about witnessing and holding. healing is not about fixing things or taking away pain. it’s about being with it, letting the wisdom in the pain soften us to it.
i have healed so so much over the last months, it can be hard for me to see because i’m just so “in it” everyday. i don’t know if that healing means i will live another 50 years, i sure wish for that!! but the healing is the continued gifts to my spirit as i’m experiencing life, here now.
i’m held. by the earth and forces unseen, by so so so many ancestors and the dark mother and by community.

one of the days i was working with blood root, they came to me. when i’ve put this plant on my skin so so many beings have shown up all around me and i can’t draw them fast enough if i tried. i didn’t intend for this to turn into something like a self portrait… but it turned that way once i saw how the one in the middle was being embraced. i saw myself. worlds turned upside down. held in protection and prayers by dream-seeders. held in a constantly faltering but sustaining balance.

when i made the choice between lumpectomy and mastectomy i felt the strength and protection of the dark mother, holding me and showing me it was right. i saw myself dancing, one breast and one flat. i felt a peace and a strength about going forward with a mastectomy and i believed it would take the cancerous growths out of my body enough for me to get ahead of the rest systemically.

the mastectomy didn’t do all i wanted it to - i am working through a recurrence and now working with black salve and more, and at times i am unsure if i chose the right moment for surgery or would it have been better had i waited so the cancer was knocked back enough to not just show right back up in the inflamed post-surgery environment. i wonder about why i only felt like i had those two choices: this surgery or that surgery, on this day. looking back, there were so many other choices but this is what i knew. i couldn’t see other paths at that moment. what would have happened on another path, all the many outcomes, all this i cannot know and i don’t want to torture my heart by searching back in time.

i am here on this path now. there are so so many questions and possibilities and i try and release the what-ifs and regrets to the wind, knowing throughout my life i have always just done what seemed best at the time, with what i had. we all do. that’s all we can do. we are influenced by so many factors and of course it’s beautiful to strive to change, do better, be the best and wisest versions of ourselves: we are doing our best with what we know. every action has outcomes, impact, consequences. i keep finding more little tumours in so many places. more on my chest. in my neck. hell yes i’m terrified and annoyed. i surrender, and remember we are held by beings and forces so much greater than what we can ever know. This path is mine to walk, this underworld journey, journey through the earth, journey through myself, nightmares and dreams, facing fears and facing all that i yearn to live for.

I embrace the self of me who has made choices that had outcomes or consequences that were painful or unexpected; in this and throughout my life. i walked forward with all the knowing i had at the time and we can’t change the past. i remind myself often that there is healing every step of the way. that healing is just so much about witnessing and holding. healing is not about fixing things or taking away pain. it’s about being with it, letting the wisdom in the pain soften us to it.
i have healed so so much over the last months, it can be hard for me to see because i’m just so “in it” everyday. i don’t know if that healing means i will live another 50 years, i sure wish for that!! but the healing is the continued gifts to my spirit as i’m experiencing life, here now.
i’m held. by the earth and forces unseen, by so so so many ancestors and the dark mother and by community.

these are some 2 and 3 years-healed tattoos on my dear dear virgo-bear-witch friend, zina who just left after 2+ weeks of profound care, companionship, support, inspiration, fabulous meals, and really great art supplies. i am so thankful for our time together. i am a hardcore #virgo4virgo4evr so it was such a treat basking in this mutually generated magic. when one of us misplaced something the other one knew precisely where it was and that shit is priceless. there’s so much more than what i feel called to give words to right now, i adore this human, i am grateful for the powerful ways support has shown up when it does. and also, i miss tattooing. i’ve been feeling the call and it feels like it’s approaching the horizon again. i enter this idea tentatively as it’s a lot of physical and energetic work and i’m suuuuper focusing on living right now and still finding my way with how to get to all the appointments and treatments and food and medicine etc. but with grounded and consistent support for just a couple weeks i was able to breathe and do more than just basic hum drum and logistics and make more art and go on more bike rides and so here’s to more high-quality support for me and all of us who need it. time to blossom again, bitches! ps. i’m raffling off a pair of pillows that i made. check the previous post !
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these are some 2 and 3 years-healed tattoos on my dear dear virgo-bear-witch friend, zina who just left after 2+ weeks of profound care, companionship, support, inspiration, fabulous meals, and really great art supplies. i am so thankful for our time together. i am a hardcore #virgo4virgo4evr so it was such a treat basking in this mutually generated magic. when one of us misplaced something the other one knew precisely where it was and that shit is priceless. there’s so much more than what i feel called to give words to right now, i adore this human, i am grateful for the powerful ways support has shown up when it does. and also, i miss tattooing. i’ve been feeling the call and it feels like it’s approaching the horizon again. i enter this idea tentatively as it’s a lot of physical and energetic work and i’m suuuuper focusing on living right now and still finding my way with how to get to all the appointments and treatments and food and medicine etc. but with grounded and consistent support for just a couple weeks i was able to breathe and do more than just basic hum drum and logistics and make more art and go on more bike rides and so here’s to more high-quality support for me and all of us who need it. time to blossom again, bitches! ps. i’m raffling off a pair of pillows that i made. check the previous post !
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✨raffle time✨
this is my first time ever doing a raffle for my work! Raffle starts now and will close on the new moon, feb 1st 12:46am PST. I will draw and announce the winner on imbolc- feb 2nd with the waxing baby crescent moon.

These pillow covers are removable and replaceable but DO come with pillow inserts already.
This pair of pillows are made with freemotion embroidery and appliqué- a mix of layered creams on brown, made from found upcycled/repurposed fabrics - cotton, silk, lace, wool, with some acrylic and poly and measure 18”x18”

*how to participate*

raffle entries are 20$ each and winner will pay for shipping from “canada.” (that’s where these ones are living right now).

you may enter as many times as you like- each 20$ increment is one “ticket.”
to enter please venmo @amarahollowbones OR etransfer ink@amarahollowbones.com
please write PILLOW RAFFLE (and other nice things) in comments. and include a way to contact you! to keep it simple for myself i am only offering these two platforms for entry.

please share with your pals and loved ones!

thank you so much for your continued support of my art, my spirit and my LIFE.

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.grandmothers of the headwaters. i was called to paint this last winter solstice, while sitting along the klamath river. i was on my own and feeling anxious and irritable i remember, spinning around in my own thoughts in my little cabin. i ran outside to break out of my own self and walked down to the beautiful raging klamath. i remember reflecting, praying, yearning, crying and then feeling the incredible support of the earth and waters and stars and the kindest old beings; the spirits in everything that hold us all. thinking about how headwaters are birthed out of ancient openings high in the mountains, gathering and weaving together into streams then creeks then rivers as they converge together downstream. i really believe that the water is full of songs for us, for all of us, full of story and tears and prayers for all of life, full of memory looping and looping and cycling. i believe that the waters memory is nothing like our own- because it all just is, at once, always in cycle. in the water is every story. every life. that for the waters there is no distinction in time between births and deaths and eons. for the rivers the evolution and explosion of all life is happening at the same time as the devastating die offs, poisoning and extinction we experience now. i have felt a great loss and yearning not being with my most beloved rivers, and not hearing the sound and drinking the sweetness of rivers my ancestors lived with but then i can remember that one river is and has been and will be all rivers, all bodies of water, and will be me as all waters will flow through all channels. we are together in this. we are cared for, loved and sang into existence through the waters that animate us, shaped on our paths by the rocks in their wise and seemingly cold neutrality are in truth the warmest grandparents holding us always, loving us unconditionally, fully invested in the lives of all beings. we can fall on them, crawl into them, lay upon them, tell them everything, and give them our waters; our tears and blood and spit and laughter. i think they want it, and need it.

.little houses. my friend zina urged me to play with her guache paints this afternoon and they were wonderfully fun, especially this PINK.
*some updates about me: i have some kind of a head cold thing, weird to process being “sick” in the context of everything in my body and the world-body right now. but it’s not bad and i’m just riding it out. i got results from an ultrasound and at first the doctor read them to me as totally clear on the left side but a 10 x 9cm lymph node in my right armpit , to which news i responded with: okay well fuck that’s massive and surely i’m dying, but then next my virgoan attention to detail self comes on line: are you sure? yes, she was sure. check again. still sure. read me the whole report, please. then she says omg it’s MM not CM and thanks me for urging her to look again. aaand thank you that’s what i thought. yes i have some enlarged nodes in my arm pit and collar bone on the right side but they aren’t freaky massive. and turns out yes there is a cluster of curious nodes on my left by my collar bone which sucks cuz it’s more distant than the original zone. i can feel them all by touch and they aren’t seeming to be growing much since i first discovered them, and i will keep watch. i’ve changed up a lot in the last month and added some more protocols and nothing is immediate. i continue. last night as i was falling asleep i was lying with the very simple and potent thoughts of “i really really want to keep living please.” i really just do, i REALLY feel how much i am into being here. and i genuinely could not say i felt that a year ago, i was sort of faking it and dragging along and things were hard. going through this all has brought me right into the face of how much i truly truly am into living right now. it’s changed me so much to feel this way again, to just fall in love with living.

.little houses. my friend zina urged me to play with her guache paints this afternoon and they were wonderfully fun, especially this PINK.
*some updates about me: i have some kind of a head cold thing, weird to process being “sick” in the context of everything in my body and the world-body right now. but it’s not bad and i’m just riding it out. i got results from an ultrasound and at first the doctor read them to me as totally clear on the left side but a 10 x 9cm lymph node in my right armpit , to which news i responded with: okay well fuck that’s massive and surely i’m dying, but then next my virgoan attention to detail self comes on line: are you sure? yes, she was sure. check again. still sure. read me the whole report, please. then she says omg it’s MM not CM and thanks me for urging her to look again. aaand thank you that’s what i thought. yes i have some enlarged nodes in my arm pit and collar bone on the right side but they aren’t freaky massive. and turns out yes there is a cluster of curious nodes on my left by my collar bone which sucks cuz it’s more distant than the original zone. i can feel them all by touch and they aren’t seeming to be growing much since i first discovered them, and i will keep watch. i’ve changed up a lot in the last month and added some more protocols and nothing is immediate. i continue. last night as i was falling asleep i was lying with the very simple and potent thoughts of “i really really want to keep living please.” i really just do, i REALLY feel how much i am into being here. and i genuinely could not say i felt that a year ago, i was sort of faking it and dragging along and things were hard. going through this all has brought me right into the face of how much i truly truly am into living right now. it’s changed me so much to feel this way again, to just fall in love with living.

painting outside in the warm january sun. daphne and roses blooming. i’m so thankful to @momsstuffsalve for being here taking such good care of me: such thorough solid bear-support. driving me places and feeding me so well AND inspiring me, that i have some space amongst everything to be able to create and experience some beauty and ease through my days. it’s so important for me. it was a big weekend for me in many many ways, i wonder if it was as huge and impactful and healing and clarifying for any others out there… happy full moon, babes!! xoxoxo
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painting outside in the warm january sun. daphne and roses blooming. i’m so thankful to @momsstuffsalve for being here taking such good care of me: such thorough solid bear-support. driving me places and feeding me so well AND inspiring me, that i have some space amongst everything to be able to create and experience some beauty and ease through my days. it’s so important for me. it was a big weekend for me in many many ways, i wonder if it was as huge and impactful and healing and clarifying for any others out there… happy full moon, babes!! xoxoxo
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reposted from my love @morningstarrceramics Dear friends and fam and community-

ONE WEEK LEFT! We have launched a Winter Fundraiser Auction to continue to support Amara on their healing journey! This fundraiser is a part of a loving boost of financial support for @amarahollowbones as they continue to navigate their breast cancer diagnosis and the major challenges associated with cancer recurrence. All funds raised will go to directly to them for associated costs such as medicines, tests (not covered by insurance), basic living expenses, housing, and ultimately to help ease the financial stress of this time.

CALL FOR DONATIONS: We are still looking for donations! If you are an artist, a maker of beautiful things, a collector, have any gifts/services that you would like to donate to this fundraiser for our dear one Amara, every little bit helps! *PLEASE NOTE: if you are not on facebook but would still like to make an offering to this auction, get in touch with me and I will help get your donation posted!*

Please join the group, share, and invite your community to join this fundraiser, for this cherished being, for their healing. Link to fundraiser is in bio.

Miigwech miigwech✨❤❄

#medicine #collectivecare #fundraiser healingjourney

✨2022 moon calendars✨ HOW TO ORDER!
thank you all for being so supportive and for your appreciation of the moon calendars i make every year! they are dear to my heart and it means so much to share them and be supported through this passion. here is a post about how to order this years!

standard pricing is-

wallsize: 20CAD/17USD
pocket size: 9CAD/7USD
SLIDING SCALE OPTION: 20-45$ wall size and 9-20$ pocket size!
this year i’m doing a sliding scale up to 45$ (or more!) for wall calendars and 20$ (or more!) for pocket calendars if you would like to send extra support to me to help me get through the expenses of healing from breast cancer.

please send payments directly through venmo, cashapp, paypal or etransfer and include your shipping address and amount ordered in the notes!

venmo: @amarahollowbones
cashapp: $amarahollowbones
etransfer: ink@amarahollowbones.com
paypal: paypal.me/amarahollowbones
paypal link can also be found in bio!

***please do not DM, email ink@amarahollowbones.com with questions!***

*edit: etsy store in back online! and can be found under the name "amarahollowbones" thank you!*

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carry the clouds. bathe in the shadows. swallow the rain. awash in the storm. gather the raindrops. these last few days i’ve felt bogged down by the the drudgery of it all. i’m tired of changing bandages and being in pain, pain that i don’t always understand, pain that i try not to make too many stories about but also try and stay vigilant about. watching bumps, tracking growth… these rhythms have become boring and tedious, really. maps and timesheets of supplements and medicines and dressings and appointments and applications and forms and labs and lab results and searching and researching and exploring and therapies and the next practitioner and bureaucracy. and i’ve been going on some beautiful bike rides and getting fed amazing food and company by my friend zina and i’m drawing and drawing so much … while electric currents pulse through me from a RIFE machine ! there’s cool things and good things too of course. but tonight, and last night, i’m tired and sad and bored of this reality and exhausted by being so vigilant with treatments and diet and i’m lacking the sense of ease where i could let go and laugh really hard or dance or decide to absorb myself into something or go somewhere for a week or three. so anyways yeah, this whole “cancer” thing is really feeling just boring right now and i’m letting myself feel that way about it. a nice little round of “this sucks i’m staying in bed and feeling sorry for myself and melting for as long as i want.”

“Annie built community everywhere she went. As we come up on the one-year anniversary of her death we would like to honor and remember Annie by hosting a fundraiser to help support someone in Annie’s extended network who is dealing with a cancer diagnosis. Amara is an artist whose work Annie loved, who is currently dealing with a recurrence of cancer after a full mastectomy of their right breast. Like Annie, Amara is a believer in science and miracles and has been approaching their diagnosis with grace and strength. Unlike Annie, Amara has been going through this without a stable place to live or financial support from immediate family/a partner. Amara is rich in friendships, but without a stable place to live it has been difficult to focus solely on healing or have friends come to stay with them and give support. Currently they have a place to stay near their care providers in Calistoga, CA and have rent covered through mid December. We want to raise enough funds to cover rent for Amara to stay in that same place through the end of March or longer - a cost of $15,000.

Annie always donated money and supplies to people in need, and there is no better way to honor her than by raising money to help Amara. To sweeten the deal, Simon has very generously donated this original painting by Annie- one of the last pieces she painted in a series about volcanos- to raffle off. To enter to win the painting you must make a donation of $50 or more. Each increment of $50 will count as a separate raffle ticket (for example a donation of $150 gets you 3 tickets). There will also be a limited run of 4 prints of this same painting that will be auctioned for a ticket price of $20. Donations of any amount are welcome, but only these specific amounts will enter you into the raffle! Purchace as many raffle tickets as you would like, there is no limit!

To make a donation and enter the raffle please Venmo at @AnnieKBlake . Please include your email address in your payment memo so we can contact you if you are a winner. Winners will be chosen on December 16th, the one year anniversary of Annie’s passing.

Details: Untitled/Rainbow Magma, 9” x 3.5”, acrylic on board”

“Annie built community everywhere she went. As we come up on the one-year anniversary of her death we would like to honor and remember Annie by hosting a fundraiser to help support someone in Annie’s extended network who is dealing with a cancer diagnosis. Amara is an artist whose work Annie loved, who is currently dealing with a recurrence of cancer after a full mastectomy of their right breast. Like Annie, Amara is a believer in science and miracles and has been approaching their diagnosis with grace and strength. Unlike Annie, Amara has been going through this without a stable place to live or financial support from immediate family/a partner. Amara is rich in friendships, but without a stable place to live it has been difficult to focus solely on healing or have friends come to stay with them and give support. Currently they have a place to stay near their care providers in Calistoga, CA and have rent covered through mid December. We want to raise enough funds to cover rent for Amara to stay in that same place through the end of March or longer - a cost of $15,000.

Annie always donated money and supplies to people in need, and there is no better way to honor her than by raising money to help Amara. To sweeten the deal, Simon has very generously donated this original painting by Annie- one of the last pieces she painted in a series about volcanos- to raffle off. To enter to win the painting you must make a donation of $50 or more. Each increment of $50 will count as a separate raffle ticket (for example a donation of $150 gets you 3 tickets). There will also be a limited run of 4 prints of this same painting that will be auctioned for a ticket price of $20. Donations of any amount are welcome, but only these specific amounts will enter you into the raffle! Purchace as many raffle tickets as you would like, there is no limit!

To make a donation and enter the raffle please Venmo at @AnnieKBlake . Please include your email address in your payment memo so we can contact you if you are a winner. Winners will be chosen on December 16th, the one year anniversary of Annie’s passing.

Details: Untitled/Rainbow Magma, 9” x 3.5”, acrylic on board”

this berry-faced deer one hosting a fundraiser for me cuz they caribou me sooo much 🐐🦌🐐🦌 details below! and they are coming to visit me soon 😭i’m so excited and counting down the days for when i get to squeeze @morningstarrceramics

if you’d like to donate or participate or share,
here’s their words below:

Dear friends and fam and community-

We have launched a Winter Fundraiser Auction to continue to support Amara on their healing journey! This fundraiser is a part of a loving boost of financial support for Amara Bones as they continue to navigate their breast cancer diagnosis and the major challenges associated with cancer recurrence. All funds raised will go to directly to them for associated costs such as medicines, tests (not covered by insurance), basic living expenses, housing, and ultimately to help ease the financial stress of this time.

CALL FOR DONATIONS: We are looking for donations! If you are an artist, a maker of beautiful things, a collector, have any gifts/services that you would like to donate to this fundraiser for our dear one Amara, every little bit helps! .
LINK IN MY BIO!

Please join the group, share, and invite your community to join this fundraiser, for this cherished being, for their healing.

MOON CALENDARS ARE PRINTED/PRINTING ! etsy has forcibly shut down my shop and disabled all new orders because of my delays in shipping due to issues with paper supply that is now remedied. they will not budge on this matter. if you would like to order, please do so through me directly. no DMS to order. EMAIL ONLY or direct through e-transfer , venmo (@amarahollowbones) or paypal- link in bio. (paypal.me/amarahollowbones) ink@amarahollowbones.com for e-transfers and communication. please include your address and amount of calendars! price includes shipping in North America and is sliding scale as extra amount will support my healing! 9$ -20$ CAD pocket size, 20$-40$ CAD wall size. (7-20$USD/ 17-40$ USD) bulk discounts for large orders. please email directly !
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look! i did it! 2022 pocket calendar in my hands all cute and stapled! they’ll be shipping out next week, thanks to the very fabulous folks at the office depot in rohnert park (one had a total goth skull mask and one had rainbow suspenders and they were both enthusiastic and rad and made it fun and were so helpful and skilled) i LOVE copy center ppl almost as much as i LOVE the post masters and postal workers in my life!!! — Jessie Allen and charla and matt to name just a few all stars ✨ (i might be biased with my love for my people at the post offices because i consider all these folks my friends who not only put up with me, but who i love and they all make me laugh and smile so much over the years ♡ )
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.new moon. i’ve been thinking of the concept of unconditional support. and how much i have felt that coming in over the last while and what that means to me. offers of gifts and support with nothing expected in return, other than i keep being me, keep living and healing. it has been flooding in over these last months and i am so grateful. last night i was cleaning up my emails and was floored by how many were words of kindness, offers of support, and paypal/venmo/e-transfer receipts for amounts large and small from people i know and love dearly, from people in my general community with whom i’ve only exchanged a few words and smiles, and from many people i’ve never met. thank you. this morning i was at my dear friends place where i had stayed from july late october. i sat at the counter after a lovely tea, scone and chicken breakfast and after they left for chores i just sobbed taking in all my experiences over the last while, and feeling their continual relentless love, support, generosity and kindness and continued openness to me in their home and hearts. and the support and love from so so many. holy shit. thank you all for listening and caring and watching. i can’t thank each of you individually and i can’t reply to every message i’m learning that has to be okay. that floods of support can come in and reciprocity is a web we weave, tend, and inhabit. it’s not a trade or direct exchange. thank you for holding me up and supporting me to keep going. i found what feels to be yet another tumor in my neck last night. maybe it’s not. it’s bigger and scares me. i don’t know what’s going on. i’m not interested in poking every little bump i find anymore. biopsying a few was enough to get a picture of what’s up and the after effects of the biopsy led to more inflammation. but, i’m keeping on going. i’m not giving up. new moon and i’m still here.

this is little me, with a big ask for more support. I’m basically just a 3 year old right now and am in great need of both in-person physical support AND financial support to help me through these times and we are doing a big fundraiser push to help me keep going. My friends have written this most recent piece on ways to help at templeofthewaters.org/amara about where the money has been spent and where more funds will go. Though i have many supportive friends in many places farther away, I am anchoring this alone with roving community support (which is AMAZING) but i don't have the consistent physical or financial support of family or partners to lean on and I ask you to please read this, and share PERSONALLY with the people in your world to help me get through this. personal, direct shares, talking to people is so much more effective and intimate than reposting links. thank you, thank you. if you are wondering about other ways you can help, please think about your skill set, and what you can offer - i get lost on “how can we help questions” that are out of context! suggestions and naming what you’re good at and where you are really helps the support take shape for me and know what to ask. thanks so much for keeping on paying attention and caring for me in these times. xoxo

on today’s episode of amara hollow bones real life-disaster chaos adventure series: wisdom tooth extraction!! the tooth faerie only ever blessed me with one wisdom tooth - she figured i was already enough of a wise ass, i suppose. i’ve been holding on to this slowly erupting beast for quite some years, thinking i could squeeze it in there and keep it... but alas, the last two weeks it’s been really messed up and totally disrupting my whole already extremely disrupted scenario- all swollen and painful, causing me bad headaches and more swollen lymph nodes in my jaw and neck and that’s extra messed up to experience in these times. i’ve also taken note that the last 2 bouts of major tooth emergence/infection moments have been coupled with massive tumor growth, that’s not okay, moms! i have learned the latent infection and swelling is distracting my immune system from dealing with the whole cancer situation (of course) AND it’s on the breast meridian! who knew!!?! (answer: my very skilled and trusted naturopaths and ayurvedic practioners) so, today, with my friend sacha as my champion chaperone- i go into the second surgery of my life! (besides all the many self-performed minor surgeries through the years)

wish me luck and continued badassery coupled with sweet softness and good dreams. please send me magical fantastical beautiful children’s stories and your fave young adult fiction of magical nature and faraway planets and lands and queer animals and rainbows and unicorns faeries, so i can get lost in joy and wonder and be the baby surrounded by babies that i need to be. (that’s one of my current prescriptions from my homeopath) for real! please mail to: 1508 lake st calistoga ca 94515 thanxxx

ps. medi-cal only covers 4 tooth extractions. will not pay for one tooth, even if there is only one tooth. no matter how hard i tried. nope. was told to go pay for it at a non medi-cal dentist and ask for a discount. low income folks with less teeth in their mouths just don’t get a break. who knew??! (answer: the capitalist monsters who made this shit up and enforce it at the expense of their own humanity)

despite continual epic shocking loss and devastation that is all just way too much to hold let alone name right now... i have managed to finish the moon calendar and have printed the first proof, found a few mistakes, hopefully i caught ‘em all and i will try my damn bestest to get these printed this week. i’m really proud of this one considering i didn’t think i’d still be alive right now! it’s in both eastern and pacific time zones!! there’s some old favourite drawings from previous years and some new ones cuz i couldn’t help myself... the oracle calls. swipe to see the other half of this photo shoot when i went outside to take pictures of my COOL mistletoe rash cuz i’m injecting myself with mistletoe and it makes a welt and then a rash and i feel kind of weird for a bit and that’s how we knows it’s working. other photos feature the current bandage scene of poke root, poke berry and walnut covering the tumor farm that is my chest . ps. doing an epic fundraiser drive for me, plus very much seeking in-person caretakers cuz apparently i can’t do EVERYTHING on my own. will post about that situation later. for now, basking in accomplishment and weirdness. thanks so much everyone. xoxoxo

link to order calendars: etsy.com/shop/amarahollowbones
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-put poke root and black walnut on freaky multiplying weird encysted leaky bloody tumors ... but make it hot. okay moms, it’s all totally whack and whatever so then lez put it on the internet and welcome to my fabulous delicious luscious terrifying personal extinction apocalypse anti-dying, survival party! someone show me how to use patreon and i’ll make pube-lick displays like martha steward home cooking shows but epic freak plant magic remedies i’m doing. home injections of mistletoe in gut skin while telling jokes? pulling out tumours with my favourite plants while making up songs between tears and cries of pain? you got it! sure! hope it works! (sure hope it works) i wanna go on a hot air balloon ride! sugar mommy take me. <i’ve fired all daddies.>

hi all, i’m sitting heavy in my heart and being today. yesterday i went in to UCSF for FNA biopsy (fine needle biopsy) on some lumps that i’ve been feeling on the surgery side, above, beside and around my areola, as well as biopsy on a swollen lymph i felt above my clavicle. cancerous cells were found in all samples taken from the side, though none showed up from the sample we got on my left breast. the cytopathologist said she was genuinely surprised to see these findings, and so was the nurse practioner who referred me. they thought the lumps were scar tissue or fat necrosis which is very common after this surgery. i don’t have too many thoughts about what’s next yet, just in it all right now and still just trying to keep some food down which has been a huge physical challenge this week. love you all. send whatever extra love, prayers, support, time, money that you’ve got. still got a big journey and seriously need some help y’all. ❤️-amara

“feral fawcett” immortalized in print, and other original art and prints... plus reiki sessions, massage, flower essence consults, a brain tanned hide! cannabis salve, a glass cock! medicines and crafts... i’m pushing this art auction that closes in a couple days- the link is in my bio. thank you so much to my dear friend @natmoynagh for organizing this and everyone who donated!!! to name just a few... (whose instagram names i readily remember) @jjaammiieeqq @jakepruim @assiniyiskew @natmoynagh @smokeandforage @dianeperazzo @the_heathen_family @lenamoonmagic ❤️

“feral fawcett” immortalized in print, and other original art and prints... plus reiki sessions, massage, flower essence consults, a brain tanned hide! cannabis salve, a glass cock! medicines and crafts... i’m pushing this art auction that closes in a couple days- the link is in my bio. thank you so much to my dear friend @natmoynagh for organizing this and everyone who donated!!! to name just a few... (whose instagram names i readily remember) @jjaammiieeqq @jakepruim @assiniyiskew @natmoynagh @smokeandforage @dianeperazzo @the_heathen_family @lenamoonmagic ❤️

.new moon. continuing to fall in love with the creek as the now-dry creek bed that is made from what it holds and shapes. the vessel and the vein. the rocks and the scars. further giving up on believing i can grasp the relationship between healing and dying as all binaries continue to dissolve but it’s still fascinating to try........................ presence
is meeting each moment as the first of its kind
a rare species
fleeting
death it’s own precious fruit of the moment
in the ripening

scars:
thickening, binding, knitting, weaving, flesh, wound
are something that was the absence of

grieve
for what chances of a dream we will lose.
oh there will be so many losses,
and missed chances
but be with me now
in this beckoning of our extinction
stand with me in the flames,
shed our waters to wet the drought
we’ve been here before

tell me, however it happens
let me be with you in your ripening, my love.
let me savour with you these fruits infused with the flavours of sun and earth sweetened through your veins

let us pluck the festering fruits of our fears with fascination for what is held within.
seed and egg and the very source of life entangled; protected within the flesh of decay.
and i thank you for filling each blossom
with the sweet nectars of every tear.

it’s all i can do
to be with these dying ones, all this devastation
is to know and to remember who we are losing
dance in their beauty
sing to them,
sing of them,
sing with them, each one in their dying
sing, sing, sing their incredible songs
watch
for the gifts from the precipice
know them all as the songs of the flowers
a beckoning
to be with
each being, ending, being, now

my dear friend Nathalie Moynagh has put together an online auction to raise money for my ongoing health and medical costs. i’ve put up this original painting, “wild resilience.” swipe to see a few of the many beautiful pieces that were donated by our incredible community. the auction is live, thank you everyone.

as a little personal update from me: i’ve had a pretty huge and deep and definitely challenging bunch of days mostly in the physical realms. i’m here for it, but hard to not feel pushed down or scared when i really can’t eat much this week and feeling weak in my body. i’m taking a break on some of the therapies for a few days. and being gentle with myself. i know there’s been so much stress and change and i’m going through a process and i definitely didn’t expect this to be easy or comfortable. alternatives to standards of care doesn’t mean it’s all going to feel great! but this first little bout of feeling this bad is disorienting. i’m working on not clinging to it all, thinking it’ll just be like this from now on. trying to not be worrying too much about what it means. but its easy to slip into those thoughts. i’m laughing about the messes i’ve been making, crying when it comes and finding fascination in all of it. xo

.new moon. continuing to fall in love with the creek as the now-dry creek bed that is made from what it holds and shapes. the vessel and the vein. the rocks and the scars. further giving up on believing i can grasp the relationship between healing and dying as all binaries continue to dissolve but it’s still fascinating to try........................ presence
is meeting each moment as the first of its kind
a rare species
fleeting
death it’s own precious fruit of the moment
in the ripening

scars:
thickening, binding, knitting, weaving, flesh, wound
are something that was the absence of

grieve
for what chances of a dream we will lose.
oh there will be so many losses,
and missed chances
but be with me now
in this beckoning of our extinction
stand with me in the flames,
shed our waters to wet the drought
we’ve been here before

tell me, however it happens
let me be with you in your ripening, my love.
let me savour with you these fruits infused with the flavours of sun and earth sweetened through your veins

let us pluck the festering fruits of our fears with fascination for what is held within.
seed and egg and the very source of life entangled; protected within the flesh of decay.
and i thank you for filling each blossom
with the sweet nectars of every tear.

it’s all i can do
to be with these dying ones, all this devastation
is to know and to remember who we are losing
dance in their beauty
sing to them,
sing of them,
sing with them, each one in their dying
sing, sing, sing their incredible songs
watch
for the gifts from the precipice
know them all as the songs of the flowers
a beckoning
to be with
each being, ending, being, now

a little photo essay on evolution//progression//journey of a person, baskets, flowers: rivers streams and seas. from this full moon, to two before (june’s), then two before that (april’s). things continue on as being somewhere within devastatingly okay, heartbreakingly beautiful, peaceful, terrifying and profound.
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i got an exam with a very rad nurse practitioner, who thought this new lump i found by my nipple was benign but wanted to address it - so we did an ultrasound and a wee “pinchogram.” the radiology doctor also saw what looked benign... but unknown... suggested a potential fine needle biopsy but we all agreed not necessary at this time but i could ask for it later if i want. so... we shall watch it. the nurse practitioner was so cool and sly and was all “well you don’t seem compulsive or anything but promise me you will only let yourself fixate on it once a week.” i said “oh yeah sure, easy.” but ya... i’m totally a compulsive little bump toucher that’s how i got here in front of her today and she called me in line baby! i’ll take what i’ll take from it.
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[i’m a passenger in a truck we are driving back home and wow the smoke-reddened sun just took my breath away, -yeah it’s my poetry and a pun- i sang a song for them. then a dry gravel creek bed. i sang a song for them. and my tender arm is swelling and i will massage my arm and keep looking outside.]
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PS. it’s my birthday soon and i wasn’t soon enough on the fur-coat tails of leo season to be brave and bold about saying something about it. so i’m nudging myself to still channel all my favourite leo’s who’s birthdays we do not ever forget! my birthday is the 11th of sept. and it’s a really weird one this year as i intimately swim these pools near the estuary waters of salt and sweet, life and death... every birthday could be our last and we all have our particular realities about that, especially right now...

what i’m saying is please help make it awesome for tender-strange-birthday-me in some little or big way, make it you! and fabulous!! send me letters and pictures and songs, call me, summon the dark mother and sing for the release of all waters and all beings, make my life easier in some special intimate and practical way, tell me a story, a memory of us, make a piece of art for us, be even less shy about how much you love me and tell me about it and then do that for someone else who needs to hear that cuz it’s really fun and almost always really important. or do something really truly grand and giant and special which just autocorrected to “elf jam” which i would say is right on the mark! so i leave it there. my birthdays coming i want an elf jam, please! and tell me your interpretations of “elf jam” thank you! maybe draw a picture or other form of creative expression or make it REALITY FOR ME!!

the ripples of the moons fullness still echo outward. ripples that shattered the rocks as they met at the edges of the water, ripples that then bounded back from shore, now sharp. that’s what hitting us now it seems. it’s shattering. or, it’s what i see filtered from within my veils, veils woven of the pulsing of blood and tracking of heartbeats. the edge between numbness and sensation. tenderness. teaching skin to feel, to remember, to reorganize. needles. needles of all thicknesses. needles full of salt, of my blood, of water and acids and essence of mistletoe. blood. my blood in so many places. smoke and mist and cloud and ash and dust. the daily occlusions. i’ve thought to write, and started many times but the words keep turning to drawings so i finally i got the memo: “i can stop trying” and i can apply it to writing, and pretty much everything. then, when applying it to everything i see how much effort and trying there is in every day. is this life now? is this just “adulting?” or wait it’s “cancer?” or “capitalism?” oh wait it’s all of those things and capitalism is especially bad and toxic, continually moreso. and as i slow down i am breathless at the pace of the reality i step further away from. how could i ever have expected myself to hold up in that storm? it looks like it’s only getting faster, the pace. i remember there are ways of being that have virtues still of both fast and strong but a speed that is older, a strength that is of a certain way in space and time.

so, i found a new little lump near my nipple of the surgery side, and going to check it out tomorrow. this process as a pulsing tide. a process governed and contained by oceans. relieving news that the scans showed no metastasis. then a lump. concern for recurrence? sea foam. a more detailed understandings of the pathology report; with some news that is challenging: cells found outside of the nodes as well as “lympho vascular invasion” meaning in the blood vessels and lymph fluids- which indicates a more aggressive situation. ok. waves come in, lapping at the shore. receding, pulling rocks. that sound- the tumbling of little rock beings rolling back into the pulsing body of the ocean.

full view of the painting i posted yesterday after i realized some of the slides were blank. this is for folks who prefer to read it in the slides ... .
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. this started as just a little update after the results from my genetic testing before going in for my ct/pet scan. but then, throughout writing this, after hours of fasting, my ct/pet scan got cancelled due to a touch of diluted kombucha in a water bottle that i didn’t know hadn’t been rinsed out before it was filled. and then i went into a hyperbaric oxygen tank and just kept writing...

i just learned that i have the BRCA1 gene mutation. it is hereditary and i think it has to do with cell death for cancerous cells. the genetic counsellor told me this explains a lot about why i developed cancer so young, and though there are other factors that led to this as well, it’s a major contributing factor. they also believe it is more likely i could haive a recurrence or another breast cancer occurrence, as well as increased risk for ovarian cancer. i did begin to sort of expect this because of my family history of breast cancer. but still, it feels strange and heavy and i’m processing what this means for me as i didn’t yet understand all the implications. their recommended ways of engaging with this are frequent monitoring of my chest and ovaries or surgery to remove my other breast and also ovaries. as wall as a PARP inhibitor which has something to do with helping the BRCA1 mutation-affected genes to be more susceptible to cell death or something like that. but it has side effects such as increased risk of developing blood cancer (wtf!) but they say it’s more chill than chemo.
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On Friday I received not the “good news” i had “hoped” for. read further if you want to hear about my views on trashing the harmful concept of hope, to hear about the pathology report and where i’m at. swipe to see some vulnerable photos pre-surgery and some pictures of me in life the last days. the whole piece of writing is at templeofthewaters.org/amara and it’s also linked through the gofund me in my bio.

the pathology report came back with extensive lymphovascular invasion: 2 out of 3 sentinel lymph nodes came back positive for metastatic carcinoma. From what I understand, this level of presence in these lymph nodes indicates a high likelihood of spread in the lymph and throughout my body.

This is not the “good news” we were hoping for. Which calls me to speak to how I relate to the concept of “hope” in this case. I don’t believe that hope has helped me in this, and I am questioning if it has actually distracted me, set me back, and harmed me. I have been told by many well-meaning doctors, practitioners and friends that thought it likely wasn’t cancer, or just a chance. I clung to that- rather than harnessing my energy for acceptance and making a plan. When I found out it was cancer, folks reassured me it likely wasn’t in my lymph, that we were hoping it wasn’t. Yet I felt strongly that it was, and as I shared my fears I was met with reassurance for other things it could be. I wanted to cling to that hope and I think that was a misuse of energy where I wish I had prepared rather than hoped. From where I am now, I see how this hasn’t been helpful. Looking back at the ultrasound and talking to more specialists I see how it was far more obviously cancer than the 50/50 the original doctor said. Perhaps, had I heard a more realistic assessment, I would have taken it more seriously and not expended energy on hope, and been more clear in my stance, less shocked and therefore less vulnerable. I am not trying to go back in time, I’m not asking for reassurance that I did the best I could. I can’t know what I would have done differently. What I do know is how this shapes my orientation to reality from where I stand now. more in comments...

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i just learned that i inherited the BRCA1 gene mutation. i think it has to do with cell death for cancerous cells. the genetic counsellor told me this explains a lot about why i developed cancer so young, and though there are other factors that led to this as well, it’s a major contributing factor. they believe it is more likely i could have a recurrence or another breast cancer occurrence, as well as increased risk for ovarian cancer. i did begin to sort of expect this because of my family history of breast cancer. still, it feels strange and heavy and i’m processing what this means for me as i didn’t yet understand all the implications. their recommended ways of engaging with this are frequent monitoring or surgery to remove my other breast and also ovaries. as wall as a PARP inhibitor which does something for abnormal cell death. but it has side effects such as increased risk of developing blood cancer (wtf!) ...but they say it’s more chill than chemo. ***continued in comments and slides*** also whole unedited writing will be at templeofthewaters.org/amara thank you for reading and being with me under all these many moons.

*the big reveal* plus an ask for local support in the san fransisco gay area.
and a pre-op enveloping beach hug. i’m in the east bay for post-op recovery and am calling in some direct support for me and my little queer family in the form of bringing meals, body work, and possibly emotional, spiritual and physical support if it applies. it’s been a while and everyone moves around so i don’t know who is where these days, and i know people have offered support who probably live in the area but i’ve kinda lost track.

i have been amazingly cared for by my best friends who of course just showed the fuck up immediately to camp out in tents and take care of me, hold me as i cry and panic and process, and bring me here. everyone is somewhat stretched and at capacity with this and with other factors in life. i want us all to feel more taken care of and available to me and each other so we can keep riding this shit show with some more ease and connection to each other.

we made a meal train for folks to sign up for meals. link in my bio. https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/4qo6g8

we are also looking for a broccoli seed sprouter- they are super important for breast tissue health and i want to have 1-2 cups a day of 3-4 day old sprouts.  

if you are in the area and able to offer other types of support like post-surgery body work or somatic integration work etc and body work for my family, please contact buckskinskills@gmail.com or monk@templeofthewaters.org that’s also a person to check in with about other offers of support from far away... for example, we are collecting turkey tail and reishi mushrooms to make medicine.

thanks so much for reading all this. i know there is a whole lot going on in all our lives and the world right now, and we are all in it together. thank you all for whatever you got, and for all you’re doing just to survive your own lives.

i've been working on more pouches and books! here are a few up for sale at etsy.com/shop/amarahollowbones

.dark moon.

sing to me of the waters, sing to me the beauty of the wilds, sing to me of what the earth never forgets; how all her watersheds have thrived and transformed with the in breath and out breaths of migration- she has carried generations and generations. carries each of them within her as they have always been and always will be alive within her.

sing to me of the spawning pools, the nesting grounds, the beaver damns, the ice sheets and glaciers. sing to me of skies filled with carrier pigeons so dark you couldn’t see the sun. sing to me of the constant aching expansion of the earth, as she pushes herself ever more to meet the stars. her cracking, breaking, splitting, flooding. sing to me of the fissures that are scars, the pressure of lava. how every fluid expands to fill a space. it is the rivers that soothe her cracks and wrinkles, oceans that fill her vastness.

sing to me of the settling of rock and soil and leaf and moss. the songs of topsoil forming in low valleys, reaching up layer by layer with life. sing to me of how water travels upstream. through the salmon. the eel. the pulsing of the tides, the drinking up of roots. our bodies compelled to venture upward, we carry water. sing to me of the waters within us, the worlds we carry, sing to me that we are known by water, loved by water, we are of water, of many rivers, one river. the river. the river who knows no beginning nor end.

*the big reveal* plus an ask for local support in the san fransisco gay area.
and a pre-op enveloping beach hug. i’m in the east bay for post-op recovery and am calling in some direct support for me and my little queer family in the form of bringing meals, body work, and possibly emotional, spiritual and physical support if it applies. it’s been a while and everyone moves around so i don’t know who is where these days, and i know people have offered support who probably live in the area but i’ve kinda lost track.

i have been amazingly cared for by my best friends who of course just showed the fuck up immediately to camp out in tents and take care of me, hold me as i cry and panic and process, and bring me here. everyone is somewhat stretched and at capacity with this and with other factors in life. i want us all to feel more taken care of and available to me and each other so we can keep riding this shit show with some more ease and connection to each other.

we made a meal train for folks to sign up for meals. link in my bio. https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/4qo6g8

we are also looking for a broccoli seed sprouter- they are super important for breast tissue health and i want to have 1-2 cups a day of 3-4 day old sprouts.  

if you are in the area and able to offer other types of support like post-surgery body work or somatic integration work etc and body work for my family, please contact buckskinskills@gmail.com or monk@templeofthewaters.org that’s also a person to check in with about other offers of support from far away... for example, we are collecting turkey tail and reishi mushrooms to make medicine.

thanks so much for reading all this. i know there is a whole lot going on in all our lives and the world right now, and we are all in it together. thank you all for whatever you got, and for all you’re doing just to survive your own lives.

With a piece that Amara drew today we are sharing this update! (Swipe left for the negotiating the medical system power suit).

The surgery is not happening tomorrow in eureka as planned, as we found out the assigned surgeon wasn’t fit for the job. We are currently happy to be in the process of being transferred to much more qualified doctors at UCSF.

Although navigating the medical system is challenging, they are receiving wonderful support from friends, family and advocates, and the referral process is going really well.

And of course, Amara is continuing to work with so many beautiful medicines and receiving so much support, and healing is well underway. They are powerfully preparing their body mind and spirit for breast removal surgery and full healing and recovery.

As Amara’s dear dear friend Shawna sang to her she realized she really wants to hear songs from all of you, to sing her into a beautiful and transformative surgery and healing - aka Amara’s making a super magical surgery playlist and is requesting beautiful songs sent to them that create that healing space. Send us your songs! Please record them as if they are ready to go on a playlist without spoken intros or outros. It can be pieces you’ve already recorded or sing /play special songs just for this time.

With so much gratitude for all your continued love and support for our dearest Amara.

Amara’s friend, Sophie 💗

no single picture can express how i’m feeling about what i’m about to share, so please scroll through for my photo essay.

i’ve been called into a massive and unbelievable healing and i write this to you all to share my news. this last monday, i was diagnosed with triple negative apocrine invasive ductal carcinoma in my right breast. this is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. which i guess is fitting cuz i’m a rare and tenacious witch.

i’m writing this for all who i believe would want to be a part of this process in any sort of way. to share one of the paths i am on right now, and to ask for support in all the uncountable ways possible in the world. i ask to receive and to be received with care and compassion, strength and encouragement, magic, gratitude and beauty. responses full of prayer. responses that speak to my whole being with a blessing. i do not welcome doubt, or fear or pity or any “shoulds” into this space. please respect my great strength and power as i walk this path the ways i choose, i walk with awe as i step forth into the darkness and the brightness and the fullness of my being and of this healing. i invite you to do the same.

to read much more in detail and to hear about my process, read writing and updates and ways of how to support, please visit the link in my bio. templeofthewaters.org/amara

my surgery has been moved to thursday june 3rd. my originally assigned surgeon broke his wrist. (!!!!!!) i had started to write a whole thing before meeting him and i feel differently now as i process some of the shifts. at this moment i feel less connected to the clarity of the intentions and spells, because i’m feeling a lot and am taking a break from some very healthy and needed screaming and crying to write this. but i do still believe in all i wrote and i ask for it to be held by my community when i can’t. what i do want to say is that this doctor respected me and my choices for my approach with medicine, and spoke clearly of all options and potential outcomes, and gave me a lot of space to process and ask questions. he also walked me through 4 different scenarios for anesthesia and that made me feel really safe. all this while i was pretty actively shaking and rocking and freaking out.
he wants to take out far more of my breast tissue than the original surgeon, so things are different for me to process. he said that it will be significant enough that it’s unlikely i could breastfeed from that breast. full mastectomy of my right breast is now something i will be sitting with and considering in the coming days. i am feeling so shocked and shaken. things that i am thinking that are helping me process and make sense of this potential reality are: this is my battle scar from all the wounds inflicted upon me from the horrors of colonial-patriarchy made visible. what does “intact” even mean and could any of us expect to fly through space on a rock and come out “intact.?” my body is perfect and beautiful and will continue to be in any and all forms. and also that i could get to (more noticeably visible) express myself as the amazing, queer, beyond-gender freak that i am with 2 different types of chest-expressions all in one. ***full writing is in the link in my bio*** and in the comments below

mother deer and fawn, looking back, on maymi’s forearm. first tattoo! i’m grateful to have been trusted with this one! ❤️thank you
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mother deer and fawn, looking back, on maymi’s forearm. first tattoo! i’m grateful to have been trusted with this one! ❤️thank you
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this past october, when the pine nuts were falling, i had the great honour to adorn @medicinebaskets with a goose and a heron flying across their shoulders. we traded for a stunning willow basket, which i received last week in the mail, and fits a baby blue dingo just perfectly ♡ thank you ♡
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this last new moon we added this cover-up raven, crescent moon and stars to my most epic birthday twin @wild_woman_remembering ‘s hawthorn chest piece that we started a few years ago. i love her so much and she’s 10 hours and 34 minutes older than me and the twinning virgo-sun, taurus-moon appreciation madness and mirroring and discovery was off the hook!
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returning to the earth. rotting. decomposing. becoming overtaken by roots, soil, lichen and fungus. carried away piece by piece by ants • thigh piece for @turnip_thebeat27 . first slide is healed, swipe to see some fresh.
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🌑new moon in pisces🌑 and i love this femme prince like nobody’s business so therefore i am making it all y’alls business. plus it’s our baby girls’ 3 moon birthday and we just couldn’t be more proud.

returning to the earth. rotting. decomposing. becoming overtaken by roots, soil, lichen and fungus. carried away piece by piece by ants • thigh piece for @turnip_thebeat27 . first slide is healed, swipe to see some fresh.
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geese for a tina goat! my dear friend @mamagoatsgarden is a kindred goose (and goat) person. always an honour to tattoo this friend, especially to adorn with these geese wrapping all around her arm... (i’m totally jealous!) may the flight of the wild geese help you soar into your wildest dreams. ♡
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little deer in a tangled nest ... in the snow! part of the whole piece we made for angi @pineymountainherbals a few weeks ago. so beautiful to see this one come alive into skin after all this time, in intimate relationship with the wolf. see previous posts for the whole thing!
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paintings from chauvet cave, vallon-pont-d’arc. swipe to see one of the reference photos from the caves! tracing these ancient lines from caves, calling them out of skin with ink and motorized tools transported me. thank you so much for the sweet visit and putting me to the task,@holysteele i was certainly intimidated tracing these ancient lines, wondering how i could possibility do them justice. i loved it.
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this tattoo was a long time in the making for angi @pineymountainherbals who reached out to me 2 years ago to draw this wolf. i drew it but i wasn’t sure when we would ever be near one another to actually tattoo, but it finally happened! ... and then morphed into the most wonderful collaboration with a drawing i had already drawn of a deer- expressing the sacred relationship between deer and wolves, how their lives are tied intimately to the health of one another and the forest. thank you so much angi, it was a pleasure. i’m sharing this as three separate posts so all can be seen together!
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paintings from chauvet cave, vallon-pont-d’arc. swipe to see one of the reference photos from the caves! tracing these ancient lines from caves, calling them out of skin with ink and motorized tools transported me. thank you so much for the sweet visit and putting me to the task,@holysteele i was certainly intimidated tracing these ancient lines, wondering how i could possibility do them justice. i loved it.
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owl and hollyhocks for my friend @arrowriverrain ‘s first tattoo! so honoured she chose me. i loved every bit of creating this and i adore this beautiful human
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hey friends. look at this demon freak who i love! it is with an aching heart i reach out to everyone to ask for some support for my very dear friend @aganaq. yesterday aganaq’s house caught fire— a house-truck she had built over the last 2 years as a little place to call home. thankfully aganaq is okay and so is her her dog, lux. but they’ve lost a lot. her home isn’t beyond repair but it will take a lot of work and time and it’s december - cold and raining and snowing. if you can we are trying to gather funds to support her through this. please offer what you can and share this to folks who might be able to offer something, too. thanks. VENMO: @aganaq e-transfer: ink@amarahollowbones and write “aganaq” in the notes. ❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much

hummingbirds and dahlias for @am4ndroid. ❤️❤️❤️ this was a whole lotta fun and wow all those petals! i love tattooing my friends, staring for hours at flowers they love while setting them into their skin... its a special gift to get to experience an appreciation for different animals and plants through the eyes of another. i get to become entranced by new plants all the time and it’s amazing. like damn. dahlias?!?!! ever stared at one for HOURS thinking of how all the petals form and unfurl? imagine flying toward that maze of symmetry and it’s way bigger than your whole body and sucking the sweet nectars from within? what a trip.
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a tiny bouquet of daisies, camellia, sunflowers, manzanita flowers, a rosebud and a hummingbird- held by her fathers hand ❤️ for @onna.joe
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hey friends. look at this demon freak who i love! it is with an aching heart i reach out to everyone to ask for some support for my very dear friend @aganaq. yesterday aganaq’s house caught fire— a house-truck she had built over the last 2 years as a little place to call home. thankfully aganaq is okay and so is her her dog, lux. but they’ve lost a lot. her home isn’t beyond repair but it will take a lot of work and time and it’s december - cold and raining and snowing. if you can we are trying to gather funds to support her through this. please offer what you can and share this to folks who might be able to offer something, too. thanks. VENMO: @aganaq e-transfer: ink@amarahollowbones and write “aganaq” in the notes. ❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much

peacock feather legs! for my darling @pw_sunshine4 AND now that i have your attention please go watch and read my last post. show up how you can for what’s real and important for the land. we all need to. thanks.
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peacock feather legs! for my darling @pw_sunshine4 AND now that i have your attention please go watch and read my last post. show up how you can for what’s real and important for the land. we all need to. thanks.
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the 2021 moon calendars are almost finished and are available for pre-order now! <3

i was just looking at the smallest little crescent moon setting in the western sky and am here to tell you... yes, as my annual devotion to the moon and my commitment to supporting our relationships with the earth and the moon and our bodies and being empowered magical fucking beings who experience the world in true and wild ways, as we work to ditch and transform the patriarchal and solar dominated ways of keeping time- i am making 2021 moon calendars and they are almost ready and are available to pre-order. they will be shipping by the first week of november (probably much sooner but i find i have to be very generous with myself these days cuz i’m taking extra time to do everything). *
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venmo- @amarahollowones
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wild magic revival spell. we are the earth moving through our bodies... we are the beginning of rivers. for @hannan.fayad.glass
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lichen leg for the serious badass @moregan.ream ❤️ i can’t even try to express how fun and challenging and satisfying this was to draw and tattoo. thank you for summoning me to create this.
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sunflowers for @smalltalkings who is moving away forever to live their best life as an equine massage therapist in bc and i’m very very happy but also i’m SO FCKN sad about it. it has been a joy tattooing and connecting with shawn over the last year. shawn shows up with super inspiring ideas for tattoos and we have made some amazing fucking art together, had solid conversations and get to gush and nerd out about our love for animals- goats and horses in particular. i am going to miss you 😭 please come back one day.
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sunflowers for @smalltalkings who is moving away forever to live their best life as an equine massage therapist in bc and i’m very very happy but also i’m SO FCKN sad about it. it has been a joy tattooing and connecting with shawn over the last year. shawn shows up with super inspiring ideas for tattoos and we have made some amazing fucking art together, had solid conversations and get to gush and nerd out about our love for animals- goats and horses in particular. i am going to miss you 😭 please come back one day.
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i have to admit that i am totally beside myself about this robin moth i got to adorn @emilyalderwoods with after her guest spot with us! this tattoo evokes such strong feelings in me, of the constant yet silent music that is the forest creating and unfurling and folding into itself with all life... and deep fae regality that is at once so wild and whimsical and deeply ancient and wise. i legit got teary eyed once we got to the drips... just wowwww i am so honoured to make such beauty to place within someone’s skin. and it’s way more than the drawing, and absolutely not about me or my art at all anymore and i just get to step back and see that there is a person who chose this and it’s theirs and wow. tattooing is always like that for me. once its in skin, it’s wholly that persons and i’m just a hollow-boned vessel calling the spirits through the ink to make it there. this one caught my heart in such a way that it slammed into me so hard, and i was able to profoundly access these feels. and attempt to write about it. i’m deeply grateful to be asked for this, to have the chance to sit with and draw such a beautiful creature.... and draw it onto another beautiful creatures skin... with needles and ink... forever... aaaah thank you. i’m so happy emily is walking the world with this one.
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meet raven the trash panda, henry’s new pal! yesterday was so much fun. @sociallubricator got @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos and me to tattoo them at the same time and it was pure magic. we counted ourselves in and started at the same time... and somehow pulled our needles out and were done at the exact same moment... wow!!! swipe to see the other tattoos Cece made for them; antique syringes, and a bonfire- flying overhead is an owl i did for them a few years ago. we want to do this more y’all. the energy that stirs up from all this creation at once is something else. 🔥🔥🔥
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pretty sure i can confidently say this was a dream come true for all of us. thanks so damn much for this magic double team tattoo experience @sociallubricator and @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos y’all are the freakin’ best ❤️❤️❤️ i want to do this more!!!

meet raven the trash panda, henry’s new pal! yesterday was so much fun. @sociallubricator got @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos and me to tattoo them at the same time and it was pure magic. we counted ourselves in and started at the same time... and somehow pulled our needles out and were done at the exact same moment... wow!!! swipe to see the other tattoos Cece made for them; antique syringes, and a bonfire- flying overhead is an owl i did for them a few years ago. we want to do this more y’all. the energy that stirs up from all this creation at once is something else. 🔥🔥🔥
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a uterus full of supportive plant medicines: queen anne’s lace, black cohosh, raspberry leaf, and evening primrose. an honour to tattoo this on @theelephantinthewomb who does great work supporting and informing people with uteruses/vulvas/wombs - as a period coach! and much more. thank you!
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hey pals. please do us, and our friends at @thenamelessst and OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS a favour: we are doing a naloxone //narcan nasal spray drive over at @communityinkcollective to bring to @thenamelessst who is a rad harm reduction org. in st. thomas. there is some nasty purple fetanyl going around and @thenamelessst has been challenged to access enough narcan to meet the need right now. SO! it’s easy! please go to a pharmacy, with your heath card and get some naloxone and bring it on by. it’s free! i’ll be at the studio tomorrow from 10:30-3 and also saturday and sunday. or have an appointment with one of us? come bearing narcan! we will get it to where it can be distributed. and even more fun: get trained on how to use naloxone! carry a kit! make them available! ask the pharmacist to tell you how to use it! attend a community training! ask someone how! WATCH A YOUTUBE VIDEO. #harmreductionsaveslives #iSAIDharmreductionsaveslivesbitch! #harmreduction #communitylove #lndnont

Dear friends,

It’s been a while since I’ve updated and so so much has changed. This is a long and vulnerable, very personal update, and I hope you can make the time to read it. The short and honest truth is: I have been struggling so much. I have been terrified, doing far too much on my own, stretching myself thin, have experienced inadequate housing and support and have been in a lot of physical distress and pain. I haven’t had the strength to share for quite some time. I am in great need for further support physically and financially to continue to face this aggressive and life-threatening illness. The last couple weeks I truly haven’t known how much longer I will be here on this earth, especially with everything else I have been facing, aside from the cancer.

I’ve had this reflected a few times now, that when I am not writing and sharing what’s going on, people's hopeful default is that they assume I’m surrounded by love and support. I keep getting sweet messages that people are picturing me that way and I need everyone to know that my overall experience as of late has been that I’m terrified, alone, exhausted, and watching these tumors grow every single day, getting bigger and redder in my skin, pulling my nipple down. My nipple is folded over itself, moist and underneath it smells like rotting. I do have friends with me again, for the week, who are cooking, cleaning, loving me up, moved me into a new place, and supporting me enough that I finally have the time to share. I started writing over a week ago, (rather, I spoke this into a recording and my friend Z transcribed) but already so so much has changed and it’s so much work to edit it all over again. I’ll do my best, and my hope is that with this long update I can get back on track and share more easily in shorter more frequent doses. That is, if I continue to have support again, which I have felt to be far too lacking over the last few weeks.

Up until near the end of October, I had been staying at a sweet farm outside of Sebastopol, at a place with such sweet and generous friends, Aubrie and Scott, who have put me and Jimmy up along with our two dogs, for months. It has been an incredible blessing, I am told I am always welcome there and it has been so wonderful to be there. But it’s a small place, and they are busy, and once the rains started and my health crisis escalated I realized that I was too isolated and not able to eat or take care of myself. Jimmy had been coming and going, traveling back and forth between the farm and southern Oregon, but left about 2 and a half weeks ago; we weren't able to be the care for each other in ways that we needed- we both need more consistent support, to be held in a web of care. He is also working through a very intense health issue since an acute tick-borne illness left him hospitalized in near liver failure back in January. He has been with my dog Jada, which is so incredibly supportive because I can't care for her or myself right now.

There has been such kind company and ambient support at this place and we have shared so many laughs and deep moments in these hard times. But it came into focus that this place is too far away and too small to host more direct support for me. With my escalating health needs, and need for more focused support, I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I need to be in a place where me and my care is the focus and there is room to hold and host more people to support me and there just isn’t the space there.

I want to share more of the back story of what has been going on the last while that I have not, until now, had any capacity to share. I have realized I want to implement a new protocol for support and how to orient to what is going on for me: if you aren’t hearing updates from me, and unless you hear from me that I am doing well and getting AMAZING support- please assume otherwise, that I am stretched and in great need, and have no capacity to share what’s going on and struggling to get my needs met.

I’ve been going through a really intense experience. I have been barely sleeping for weeks and weeks and am in increasing amounts of pain as the tumors in my chest are growing. I haven’t shared an achingly painful piece publicly until now: On the anniversary of my mom's death, October 11th, I found out that I was pregnant, which is something that I've wanted so, so badly. A few days later, Jimmy left for up north. A week and a half later, I found out through a FNA (fine needle biopsy) that the lumps in and around my nipple are cancer recurrence as well as metastasis to further lymph nodes- one confirmed in my collar bone.
As much as I wanted to share this news, I was so disheartened at different times when I would tell various friends or practitioners and get responses such as: “CONGRATULATIONS!! HOORAY!” No. That was not the feeling, and not what you say to someone in the throes of a life-threatening illness when they tell you they are pregnant. I felt a deep heartbreak, longing, and despair for the reality of my life situation: that as much as I yearned it to be so, I could not continue with this pregnancy. I had to start curating how I told the few people I could. I felt afraid to share because of the variety of judgements for my choice if I either continued to maintain or terminate the pregnancy. I became fearful for the support I might lose if I chose either path. The symptoms of the pregnancy were getting so intense, I could not continue with any more of my treatments, I could not eat the specific foods that i was trying to eat, could barely eat anything for a while. I had to ditch everything and just eat biscuits and gravy and pasta and whatever I could keep down. I cannot describe the feelings I experienced while watching my body change and grow and swell with pregnancy, while also watching the tumors grow redder, and my nipple get crustier and more unhealthy every day. Walking between the worlds of life and death.

I was told by some baby-crazed high risk OBGYNs, nurses, naturopaths, etc. that I could keep this pregnancy. That pregnant people can get chemo and it is has no effect on the growing being because of the protection from the placenta. I considered this option, thought maybe one of the reasons this baby showed up was to take myself out of the way and do chemo. No. Once I spoke to the Oncologist at UCSF she clarified that chemo is used in third trimester when cancer is discovered during pregnancy, to buy a little more time. Often still resulting in pre-term labor and complications. It would be a huge risk to both me and this baby to attempt anything like that, and I would have had to wait another 18 or so weeks to even begin. I just couldn’t.

On October 26th, with community support- asking folks on instagram to throw down- I took myself out to a much-needed retreat in Calistoga for what I thought would be a couple days. I realized that I just didn’t want to leave because I was finally able to access food and a bathtub and a place quiet and spacious enough to process my emotions, lie on the floor, wail and freak out and realize the reality of my situation. Since then, and until this Friday, I’d been packing up in my truck every few days, moving into whatever hotel I can find that's affordable and then moving back into the ones in Calistoga because they have weekly discounts during the middle of the week that I can actually afford.

On November 2nd-3rd, between the gates of Samhain, on Dia de los Muertos, I had an incredibly, incredibly beautiful ceremonious birthing termination that was one of the most profound things I've ever moved through in my life. I called upon beloved friends to be with me and was supported with so much love and strength from 2 of my dear friends Chloe and Chloe. Before this experience, we were community members, friends who knew and appreciated each other, but had never had much intimate time together. We all came away forever changed, profoundly bonded, deeper than family, forever.

Just two days later, we packed up and left. My soul was ripped to pieces. Chloe and Chloe busted out their magic and found me an affordable rental for the weekend. I picked up my free food delivery, along with groceries the Chloes bought me, collapsed in the lap of my acupuncturist in tears, then went onwards to my weekend hotel stay at “The Woods” an LGBTQ hotel in Guerneville. It was lovely but so exhausting moving my things into a new place once again. Everything has been too much. I rested in a cozy room for three nights, watched ravens perching in redwoods out the window, rainbow flags blowing in the wind. I reached out to friends to help me find a longer-term rental that could have the space for me to be on my own, and welcome support when I need it- where those supporting me can easily do so: with their own space- an extra room. Oh things have just been so so much for my dear little body. Moving through such a powerful experience and uprooting every few days to find a place of quiet and respite where I could be with myself, be with this being who I asked to depart. I’ve been a wreck, in so much pain and terror. Beloved friends came through and gathered money together to pay for me to rent an Air BNB for the whole month in Calistoga. My friends Janine, then Tyler and Monet showed up to help me move out and in, for maybe the 5th time in 2 weeks.

I’m finally able to breathe and receive the support I have so desperately needed, and in a place that I absolutely love. A lovely friend in Utah footed the bill for the month. I want to stay here for another 1-3 months, it’s far too expensive for me to afford on my own. I’m so so tired of moving. I’m happy here. I can walk around this little town and get what I need, and it’s the same distance to appointments as before. These last days I have finally found myself just barely on the other side of constant distress and terror. We have been searching exhaustively for something more affordable that is equally as accessible for me and my needs, and to host caretakers. This is a small 2 bedroom for 4k a month. I have been offered trailers on people’s land, far away. I’ve been offered spare music rooms or living rooms. No. I just can’t do it. I can’t keep feeling like a couch surfer while I’m facing the most intensely straining thing in my life, while I need nothing more than a place for sanctuary and healing. I’ve lived the majority of my adult life in trucks, wall tents, trailers, shanties and cabins far away. We all know I can do it and I love that life. But I have to accept that I just can’t right now.

There is more I feel compelled to share, that feels just as vulnerable to share as the pregnancy. Something very painful, that completely threw me, and I believe has contributed to me being in this chaotic situation I’ve been in the last while. Here goes…

I’ve been able to do a lot of processing in the last while, in this time being on my own and preparing myself to end the pregnancy, and really come to terms with the times immediately after my surgery, that I was in a really, really horrible situation. It’s still too painful, complex and difficult to share details, and I don’t think I need to share in this format. It was absolutely NOT everyone there, but we did have to leave the place that was arranged for me to be taken care of after surgery because it was so awful, and we were disoriented and unable to realize just how bad it was. The very wonderful support and care that I did have there was either neutral and holding space in the dynamics or so caught up and stretched in trying to manage the situation and protect me from harm they were not able to care for me as well as I needed and deserved, and as well as I believe they could have under different circumstances. It was awful, scary, confusing and left me feeling betrayed, hurt, and scared of speaking about my experience, and scared of welcoming greater in-person support into my life because of how damaging that time was. I say this not to create blame or discussion about what was going on for those who I was hurt by, and I ask for this not to turn into a courtroom of judgements or blame or sides.

I am doing my best to share what I need to share because it is important for people to know that I went through something traumatic at a time of great need, dependency and vulnerability when I know so so many of you all wished and believed I was receiving wonderful support. I came away from this time believing many awful things about myself, and I shied away from receiving support because I couldn’t trust it, and felt that I didn’t deserve it. It touched into deep familial and relational wounds and beliefs about me being crazy or unworthy of the care I asked for- which was essentially basic gentleness, care, ease, respect for my process, and support with meals, water, and walks. I have been processing this time with a few people that I feel safe with to do so. I have realized that those experiences were like a dam I have been caught behind- unable to access a lot of other emotions or receive the support I need until I was able to finally start working through and talking about that time.

I feel scared even to share this, for fear of backlash from some of these people or mutual friends. I ask to please hold us all in this tenderness, even the ones who I was hurt by, as I know that in times of great stress that challenging things come out. Please honour me and us all by holding that this is really complex. People get overwhelmed when facing loved ones struggling, as well as going through their own struggles. I needed to remove myself because my boundaries were not respected, and neither were some of my most intimate loved ones. Please know that I experienced a lot of painful and really inappropriate things that took a lot of energy from me and others to maintain emotional safety at this time. But we got away, and I am healing these wounds and finding the power in discerning what is welcome or not welcome, what is helpful and what is harmful in my space. I am finding my voice in what I need and since I have finally been able to start working through this time, I have started to open to more active and intimate care again.

This is not a discussion of sides, or right/wrong. I welcome empathy; for there is pain, and there are wounds. I welcome invitations for me to share personally and privately to help me move through what I experienced and get it out of my body. I do not welcome gossip, assumptions, judgements or conclusions. I hope that by naming this, I can break through the dams and begin to share again, as I have since re-learned that I am, in fact, worthy of support. I can be needy, scared, confused and imperfect and receive the care I want and need.

Jimmy and I left for a weekend to get a break and stay with our friends outside of Sebastopol. When we told them what had been going on, they urged us to pack up and leave and never go back, we were welcome with them. Thank goodness to them. I cannot imagine what one more night in that place would have done to us. They welcomed us as we were, had no expectations of me or either of us. Jimmy continued to show up as long as he was able to and will again with more community support. This is a web, and my tenders need to be tended to continue. When my dear friends “the Chloes” came it was so incredible because I was able to be exactly who I was. A mess, grumpy, chaotic, full of need and pain, and of course brilliance, and magnificence and pure magic!!! I was able to make a face and say: "I don't want that", and it was fine and it was beautiful and they loved me consistently, and held me with incredible strength and grace through one of the most beautiful, profound and painful experiences of my life. Now, my friends Tyler and Monet are here caring for me for the week, and they are quite a team! Not only am I brought three nourishing meals a day, handed glasses of water before I can think of it, and driven to all my appointments, my despair and fear is welcome. My confusion, my particularities. This morning, I panicked and couldn’t find an herb I always put into my morning drink; it had been moved. I searched and searched, and finally knocked on their door and woke them in a panic. I was met with loving understanding: I was reminded that of course I was upset and wanted my thing, it’s okay to be anxious and demanding when I’m scared.

I feel compelled to share all this because I have been holding the experiences from around my surgery with such pain, I’ve been frozen. Up until recently when I was basically desperate, I have pushed away more focused support. I felt so betrayed and judged that I’ve been afraid of my friends. I felt unworthy of receiving care. I believed I was a crazy controlling monster, unable to receive support. Since I started to share with more friends, and those in my group support chat, I’ve finally started to thaw and realize I can receive support. I’m not impossible to take care of, my needs and my boundaries are valid and wonderful and can be honoured with love and care.

Though the waves of sheer terror and despair have temporarily subsided, it doesn’t mean this mountain I am climbing is any less great. I do have an impressively skilled and thoughtful network of support. Yet I find it tiring to receive so much support through the texting, emails, and phone calls. It’s both supportive yet exhausting and draining. Typing on the computer or texting on my phone is getting increasingly difficult the last few days as my right arm is swelling and going numb. Needless to say: it’s not only uncomfortable but takes a whole lot of work to not fall into despair about what that means.

I really wish for, and genuinely NEED more consistency and solid in-person support of an advocate-bestfriend -partner-wife-mom-TEAM to be physically by my side with this, holding this with me. This is often challenging for me because I’m a really sensitive introvert and it’s often difficult to be that engaged with other humans. Especially at this time, when I am even more sensitive. There is so much support I need, and I want to feel affirmed in the support that I need- and to keep receiving support when I have no social energy, when it’s too exhausting to receive or respond to messages. Please don’t fall away or give up on me when I can’t engage. I need so much support, and I also yearn for, and very much NEED to access the deep space of solitude and connection with myself, where I can access deep healing, rest, and wisdom. I just can’t do this with so much navigation of fundraising, communicating, advocating. I need help making my life and my process feel easier, without the pressure to offer immediate feedback or affirmation. Show me this is okay. It’s hard because I’m such a caretaker, and it’s a total transformation to be this dependent. I suppose it’s the highly-sensitive-introvert-caretakers dilemma who is now needing a lot of care. My, what lessons abound! I have experienced and witnessed this type of care in different times in my life and I do trust that people can come together especially if I am more vocal about what's really happening and what I need. We all need to be held in a web of care. I need those who care for me to be cared for just as fiercely or all with falter.

So, I’m lying pretty battered in the rocks right now, gently tended for a bit. My moon calendar, my passion and gift to myself and the world, is getting closer to completion, and with the help of my brilliant research team of Síle, KT and Tyler, along with various other practitioners and supportive friends, I am getting back on track with supplements, new regimens, diagnostics and protocols for healing this completely WHACK disease process. It also continues to be so much work to weave all the different opinions and pieces together, but I am honing in.

I am so so thankful to all of you. I am thankful for this temporary sanctuary of a home for holding me right now, the waters flowing through this valley, the shape of these hills, the rains, bursting persimmons and pomegranates, the neighbours on these streets that smile and say good morning. I’m thankful for this process of writing, to gather my thoughts, reflect, and find gratitude in all this. And I ask for your continued support: logistical support, preparing me the specific foods i need, sending me or helping me access the supplies and herbs and supplements I need, physical in-person support, (knowing that there are not all types of in-person care I can receive at this time, and it’s not personal) financial support to help me continue to have a secure place to rest, heal and thrive, access treatments, supplements, good food, practitioners, and to gather my strength to keep going, to keep connected to life and the earth, love, grief, joy, and creativity. I love it on this earth, I intend to stay. It’s all too much for my gentle and struggling little body and I truly cannot rest and heal while I’m running around stressed about finances, housing, and safety. Help me.

archy the peacock, for karley. hanging out with a moon tattooed by @squigglysqualor !
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hey pals. please do us, and our friends at @thenamelessst and OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS a favour: we are doing a naloxone //narcan nasal spray drive over at @communityinkcollective to bring to @thenamelessst who is a rad harm reduction org. in st. thomas. there is some nasty purple fetanyl going around and @thenamelessst has been challenged to access enough narcan to meet the need right now. SO! it’s easy! please go to a pharmacy, with your heath card and get some naloxone and bring it on by. it’s free! i’ll be at the studio tomorrow from 10:30-3 and also saturday and sunday. or have an appointment with one of us? come bearing narcan! we will get it to where it can be distributed. and even more fun: get trained on how to use naloxone! carry a kit! make them available! ask the pharmacist to tell you how to use it! attend a community training! ask someone how! WATCH A YOUTUBE VIDEO. #harmreductionsaveslives #iSAIDharmreductionsaveslivesbitch! #harmreduction #communitylove #lndnont

magical cauldron for a magical human @lisa_rn88 ✨ this is one from my flash from the (amazing) wet’suwet’en fundraiser that we hosted at @communityinkcollective back in march! whatever i couldn’t fit in that day got booked for the following weeks... but then couldn’t tattoo them until july!!!
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lavender wreath, for my friend @a._rachel_.a to balance the chamomile wreath we did in march (swipe to see both!)
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magical cauldron for a magical human @lisa_rn88 ✨ this is one from my flash from the (amazing) wet’suwet’en fundraiser that we hosted at @communityinkcollective back in march! whatever i couldn’t fit in that day got booked for the following weeks... but then couldn’t tattoo them until july!!!
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meet henry the porcupine! i started tattooing again with a very-belated birthday tattoo for the wonderful @sociallubricator, and my first tattoo in over three months on a human that wasn’t myself!!!! swipe to see the photo they took a few days later once it calmed down a little.
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magical morels in the forest, surrounded by pine trees, growing out it a pile of ash, oak, and pine duff... trees where they are most likely to be found. for the wonderful, badass and talented dani ❤️ aka my husband-according-to-our-next-door-neighbours (@kpmcommunityink) actual real husband.
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***💔i have an announcement and it’s sad💔*** (and this is what tattooing has been looking like for me lately) a few weeks ago now we got the news that b13, the building that hosts our beloved queer tattoo studio @communityinkcollective, is closing and terminating all our leases.
cue “it’s not right but it’s okay” by whitney houston- that’s what i was listening to (on repeat) as i wrote this in early may but haven’t been able to get it out here til now. so without going into all the complicated stuff- this song - are you listening?!- about sums up my feelings for what was going down before this happened, and where i’m at with it right now. even though none of us have been tattooing there anyways for the last 2 months, and the place was kind of revealing itself to not be a spot that could hold us the best anyways, it’s still a sad, weird, and disorienting change for us to say goodbye to our first little nest together. it has been incredible what we have done together and i can’t wait for the epic new place we create together. may it be even more freaky queer and magical than we ever imagined- the perfect place for our art and tattoos and community to keep coming together and thriving. THANKFULLY all of us at @communityink are still solid and madly in love with and inspired as fuck by each other! our coming together was obviously guided by our divine fairy godmothers so i’m pretty damn sure this just a rock in the path and whatever happens next is going to be even more amazing. i love our community, i love tattooing, i love all of you, i love my studio-partners @kpmcommunityink, @heyhandpoke, @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos. thanks for the opportunity and support y’all. community ink’s first baby steps into the world was amazing. I MISS YOU ALL! we’re starting to look for a new and even better space so we can all come back together whenever we can tattoo again❤️ okay now cue: whitney’s “step by step.” cuz that’s what i’m listening to on repeat now! swipe to see some bittersweet last photos of the space. 💔

horse skeleton back piece! finished early march in two sessions for @smalltalkings who is a very special human who i love tattooing and is an equine massage therapy student and made sure i drew it exactly perfectly anatomically correct. high pressure!!! this was so much fun and a super challenge and i’m so thankful i got to do this one. 🖤lines are healed and blackwork is fresh! ps. i miss tattooing ! .
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horse skeleton back piece! finished early march in two sessions for @smalltalkings who is a very special human who i love tattooing and is an equine massage therapy student and made sure i drew it exactly perfectly anatomically correct. high pressure!!! this was so much fun and a super challenge and i’m so thankful i got to do this one. 🖤lines are healed and blackwork is fresh! ps. i miss tattooing !
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horse skeleton back piece! finished early march in two sessions for @smalltalkings who is a very special human who i love tattooing and is an equine massage therapy student and made sure i drew it exactly perfectly anatomically correct. high pressure!!! this was so much fun and a super challenge and i’m so thankful i got to do this one. 🖤lines are healed and blackwork is fresh! ps. i miss tattooing ! .
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***💔i have an announcement and it’s sad💔*** (and this is what tattooing has been looking like for me lately) a few weeks ago now we got the news that b13, the building that hosts our beloved queer tattoo studio @communityinkcollective, is closing and terminating all our leases.
cue “it’s not right but it’s okay” by whitney houston- that’s what i was listening to (on repeat) as i wrote this in early may but haven’t been able to get it out here til now. so without going into all the complicated stuff- this song - are you listening?!- about sums up my feelings for what was going down before this happened, and where i’m at with it right now. even though none of us have been tattooing there anyways for the last 2 months, and the place was kind of revealing itself to not be a spot that could hold us the best anyways, it’s still a sad, weird, and disorienting change for us to say goodbye to our first little nest together. it has been incredible what we have done together and i can’t wait for the epic new place we create together. may it be even more freaky queer and magical than we ever imagined- the perfect place for our art and tattoos and community to keep coming together and thriving. THANKFULLY all of us at @communityink are still solid and madly in love with and inspired as fuck by each other! our coming together was obviously guided by our divine fairy godmothers so i’m pretty damn sure this just a rock in the path and whatever happens next is going to be even more amazing. i love our community, i love tattooing, i love all of you, i love my studio-partners @kpmcommunityink, @heyhandpoke, @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos. thanks for the opportunity and support y’all. community ink’s first baby steps into the world was amazing. I MISS YOU ALL! we’re starting to look for a new and even better space so we can all come back together whenever we can tattoo again❤️ okay now cue: whitney’s “step by step.” cuz that’s what i’m listening to on repeat now! swipe to see some bittersweet last photos of the space. 💔

dripping honey comb and bees *COVER UP.* swipe to see original tattoo of old scarred and faded roses, and to see closeups of this piece. i absolutely love doing coverups. cover ups of old tattoos, coverups of scars... whatever you got. it is so much fun for me to be a part of reclaiming these parts of our bodies and changing the story. and i love the challenge and trippy art-math of designing something that is beautiful and new and covers something up in just the right ways, working with existing textures and minimizing the black-out by working with what is there to create shapes that become something new. this was done in two sessions. all the outlining of the cells was done in the first session, as well as the drips and shading there in, and the blacking out on the top half/right side of this image. a lot of the cell-detail on the outside edges, too. the rest: the bees and lower blacking out and inner cell-details was done the second session. thank you so much!
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WE RAISED $4355.40 at the tattoo fundraiser on sunday!!!! and sent it all to @gidimten_checkpoint. folks from many communities came together to donate, get tattooed, tattoo, volunteer, hang out, support, snack, write post cards! i am so honoured to have been a part of this incredible day in deshkan ziibing. the joy i feel from this experience is profound — how everyone showed up to make this happen: people showed up so strongly not only for wet’suwet’en, but carried that spirit into showing up for each other. i’m still trying to put words to this- the power of this uprising, initiated by the wet’suwet’en people and held down by indigenous peoples and accomplices across turtle island- for protection and healing of the land and the people showed up in the very soul of this day and we were shaped by this medicine and changed by it. thank you. being a part of this fundraiser was unifying and healing for us here. the artists were cared for, well-fed, brought water. i had the spaciousness and support to eat well, take breaks, visit and laugh with friends while working super hard all day but feeling happy and energized at the end of the day and not wanting it to end. tattooing alongside my dear friends (and new friends) was the best. @flycatcherdiy @heyhandpoke @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos @kpmcommunityink. @flycatcherdiy shared a smudge with the artists and volunteers at the opening of the day, and shared teachings for those who were unfamiliar. @leftysmudges set up a table where folks could write postcards of solidarity she is sending of to unist’ot’en. @juicytings made amazing cookies (and made sure i got some before they were gone) so many solid volunteers showed up and stayed til the end. i peeked out of the little tattoo booth to see little ones napping, new friends painting together, people smiling and sharing snacks. sarah @b13thebakersdozen showed up with so much care and support for the day. thank you to EVERYONE and extra to: @karalynreuben @riz.ds @kaeru.domicile @kataish @_iyledre @will.oh.the.wisp, dani, and my epic virgo badass carolyn. (((front photo by @backroadsinc , b+w photos by my dear dad: Ian MacEachern.))) @ London, Ontario

a female orca whale cover-up for @thisunruly life; badass photographer of @theabortionproject. swipe to see what’s being covered-up.
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queen anne’s lace and cotton for my dear friend @sacred__transitions of @theabortionproject. check out what they are doing!!! two beautiful and very important plants for supporting our wombs and taking our fertility and uterine experiences into our own hands. the overlapping triangles were already there- with a few dots we turned into dripping lines... the shedding of a uterus. ❤️ thanks i love you ❤️
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dripping honey comb and bees *COVER UP.* swipe to see original tattoo of old scarred and faded roses, and to see closeups of this piece. i absolutely love doing coverups. cover ups of old tattoos, coverups of scars... whatever you got. it is so much fun for me to be a part of reclaiming these parts of our bodies and changing the story. and i love the challenge and trippy art-math of designing something that is beautiful and new and covers something up in just the right ways, working with existing textures and minimizing the black-out by working with what is there to create shapes that become something new. this was done in two sessions. all the outlining of the cells was done in the first session, as well as the drips and shading there in, and the blacking out on the top half/right side of this image. a lot of the cell-detail on the outside edges, too. the rest: the bees and lower blacking out and inner cell-details was done the second session. thank you so much!
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golden teachers and a wee snail for my dear @gimiiwanikwe. swipe to see a photo showing scale, Standra holding it strong, and a very high-fashion photo of a few amazing babes. @smorningstarr @waabananangokwe
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MARCH 8th! TATTOO FLASH DAY at @communityinkcollective. SOLIDARITY FUNDRAISER FOR WET’SUWET’EN land and water protectors. 100% of funds are going to GIDIMT’EN CLAN- @gidimten_checkpoint.
featuring: @flycatcherdiy, @amarahollowbones, @heyhandpoke, @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos and flash by @cdmetisart
please SHARE and continue to follow what’s going on. #alleyesonwetsuweten
***yintahaccess.com***
• SWIPE to see some of my available flash. follow stories and posts of all artists to see available flash and more updates!•
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“We stand as witnesses to this historic moment when the federal and provincial governments, RCMP, and Coastal GasLink/TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) are openly violating Wet’suwet’en, Canadian, and international law.
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Coastal GasLink/TC Energy is pushing through a 670-kilometer fracked gas pipeline that would carry fracked gas from Dawson Creek, B.C. to the coastal town of Kitimat, where LNG Canada’s processing plant would be located. LNG Canada is the single largest private investment in Canadian history.
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Each clan within the Wet’suwet’en Nation has full jurisdiction under their law to control access to their territory. Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed all pipeline proposals and have not provided free, prior, and informed consent to Coastal Gaslink/ TransCanada to do work on Wet’suwet’en lands.”
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#alleyesonwetsuweten #wetsuwetenstrong #notresspass #landback #wedzinkwa #shutdowncanada #landdefenders #waterprotectors #rcmpstanddown #wetsuweten #reconcilliationisdead #defendtheyintah #westandwithwetsuweten #istandwithwetsuweten #solidarity #tattoos #linework #fundraiser #lndnont #519london #519londonontario #ontariotattoos #ontariotattoo #flashday #londonontario #botanicaltattoo #londonontariocanada #qttr #floraltattoo @ B13 The Bakers Dozen

MARCH 8th! TATTOO FLASH DAY at @communityinkcollective. SOLIDARITY FUNDRAISER FOR WET’SUWET’EN land and water protectors. 100% of funds are going to GIDIMT’EN CLAN- @gidimten_checkpoint.
featuring: @flycatcherdiy, @amarahollowbones, @heyhandpoke, @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos and flash by @cdmetisart
please SHARE and continue to follow what’s going on. #alleyesonwetsuweten
***yintahaccess.com***
• SWIPE to see some of my available flash. follow stories and posts of all artists to see available flash and more updates!•
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“We stand as witnesses to this historic moment when the federal and provincial governments, RCMP, and Coastal GasLink/TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) are openly violating Wet’suwet’en, Canadian, and international law.
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Coastal GasLink/TC Energy is pushing through a 670-kilometer fracked gas pipeline that would carry fracked gas from Dawson Creek, B.C. to the coastal town of Kitimat, where LNG Canada’s processing plant would be located. LNG Canada is the single largest private investment in Canadian history.
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Each clan within the Wet’suwet’en Nation has full jurisdiction under their law to control access to their territory. Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed all pipeline proposals and have not provided free, prior, and informed consent to Coastal Gaslink/ TransCanada to do work on Wet’suwet’en lands.”
-from www.unistoten.camp
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#alleyesonwetsuweten #wetsuwetenstrong #notresspass #landback #wedzinkwa #shutdowncanada #landdefenders #waterprotectors #rcmpstanddown #wetsuweten #reconcilliationisdead #defendtheyintah #westandwithwetsuweten #istandwithwetsuweten #solidarity #tattoos #linework #fundraiser #lndnont #519london #519londonontario #ontariotattoos #ontariotattoo #flashday #londonontario #botanicaltattoo #londonontariocanada #qttr #floraltattoo @ B13 The Bakers Dozen

FLASH available to be tattooed MARCH 8th for wet’suwet’en solidarity fundraiser for gidimt’en yintah access checkpoint @gidimten_checkpoint.
***please note i will be doing WALK-INS ONLY for all my flash and @cdmetisart flash*** @wrapped_in_plastic_tattoos will also be doing walk-ins only. check in with the other artist’s pages for how they’ll be organizing themselves and what to do! come at 11am for sign up! bring snacks to share! come early to volunteer! bring dishes and cups to eat and drink out of! show up in frienship and solidarity with #wetsuwetenstrong #shutdowncanada #westandwithwetsuweten

@seedingsovereignty Feb 10, 2020 Press Release graphics via #UnistotenCamp. Please share.
#AllEyesOnUnistoten #AllEyesOnWetsuweten #WetsuwetenStrong #ReconciliationIsDead #shutdowncanada #unistoten #landback #thetimeisnow
Wet'suwet'en Supporter Toolkit: http://unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit2020
Unist'ot'en Legal Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/unistoten2020legalfund
Callout for Solidarity: http://unistoten.camp/alleyesonwetsuweten

Gidimt'en Call to action: www.yintahaccess.com
Donate to Gidimt'en camp: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gidimt039en-strong

*** SUPPORT GIDIMT’EN CHECKPOINT *** hi all! PLEASE SHARE!!! i am a part of this fundraiser- where you can bid on tattoos from artists across turtle island by becoming a monthly donor for @gidimten_checkpoint who are protecting their land from pipelines, RCMP and the colonial government of Kkkanada. Organized by supporters of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and all five clans, artists from across Turtle Island once again work together to host a Monthly Donor Fundraiser. Every month, the Gidimt’en clan protecting their lands from Coastal Gas Link pipeline will receive crucial and dependable funds needed to feed, construct, and maintain camp through the monthly donor program.
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Contributing artists: (🔥check out this amazing list of artists!!!! omg🔥). @blood.moth, @drawingwolfstudio, @kiala.loytomaki.art, @beyon.wren.moor, @bugtattoos, @meaganberlin, @peachbaby.888, @emi.lynn.holler, @riversteeth, @animals.drawing.animals, @thoughtupsnorth, @peripeteiah, @eel_boy, @deserttattoos, @emily.rose.tattoos, @miamdelaglace, @terrydactel, @dranem.bag, @louzink, @rat666tat, @maryswcampbell, @godstooth, @leannethief, @thepartofyouthatgivesafuck & @cdmetisart, @moonflower.tattoo, @amarahollowbones, @lizard__milk, @_thisthat, @nicholas.jean.berger, @kittenwych, @needle.imprints, @softenough, @beet.nic
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#tattoos #flashtattoos #queerartist #queertattooartist #qttr #machinetattoos #handpoked #habdpokedtattoo #stickandpoke #indigenousresistance #indigenoussovereignty #thetimeisnow #nomeansno #nopipelines #decolonize #gidimten #wetsuwetenstrong #wetsuweten

Well string me up and call me deer, this wild piece of work finally kicked the seed bucket. yup! Finisia is Finito! that’s her: pictured here, stringing me up like the meaty carcass i am— the infamous Tranny Granny. definitely one of the craziest mother-loving fuckers i ever met, and if i’m lucky, ever will meet. cuz damn! what a piece of work! i know we’ve all wished her dead at some point, i sure have, but now that this root-digging, seed-planting, shit-talking, cop-tricking, scripture-spitting Auntie Christ trickster is dead i guess i’ll kinda miss her. my last words to her, yelled at her from a car full of giggling faeries driving by her camp was “fellatiooooooo” and i wouldn’t change it for anything. i remember being so ticklishly afraid we’d run into her but i’ll admit i was secretly hoping we would at the same time... just so i could tell her off and see how it goes, like a fucked up love language. and playing with fire. from a distance her drama is SO hilarious and beautifully irreverent but also deeply fucked and also kinda scary and sad but i live for it all the same. cuz damn she was epic and poured her fucked up heart and her tears and her cunt into healing the earth and now that she’s dead we all get to pretend it was only ever super sacred special magic and nothing else right?! just kidding! anyways! here’s to one of the most prolific and problematic hard-ass hot messes i’ve ever known. glad you gave us enough to laugh about for the rest of our lives to get us through all the trauma you inflicted! BYE BITCH! i can’t believe you actually existed and made it this long. love ya! hate ya!

*** SUPPORT GIDIMT’EN CHECKPOINT *** hi all! PLEASE SHARE!!! i am a part of this fundraiser- where you can bid on tattoos from artists across turtle island by becoming a monthly donor for @gidimten_checkpoint who are protecting their land from pipelines, RCMP and the colonial government of Kkkanada. Organized by supporters of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and all five clans, artists from across Turtle Island once again work together to host a Monthly Donor Fundraiser. Every month, the Gidimt’en clan protecting their lands from Coastal Gas Link pipeline will receive crucial and dependable funds needed to feed, construct, and maintain camp through the monthly donor program.
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Contributing artists: (🔥check out this amazing list of artists!!!! omg🔥). @blood.moth, @drawingwolfstudio, @kiala.loytomaki.art, @beyon.wren.moor, @bugtattoos, @meaganberlin, @peachbaby.888, @emi.lynn.holler, @riversteeth, @animals.drawing.animals, @thoughtupsnorth, @peripeteiah, @eel_boy, @deserttattoos, @emily.rose.tattoos, @miamdelaglace, @terrydactel, @dranem.bag, @louzink, @rat666tat, @maryswcampbell, @godstooth, @leannethief, @thepartofyouthatgivesafuck & @cdmetisart, @moonflower.tattoo, @amarahollowbones, @lizard__milk, @_thisthat, @nicholas.jean.berger, @kittenwych, @needle.imprints, @softenough, @beet.nic
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you can win this flash! *** SUPPORT GIDIMT’EN CHECKPOINT*** Organized by supporters of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and all five clans, artists from across Turtle Island once again work together to host a Monthly Donor Fundraiser. Every month, the Gidimt’en clan protecting their lands from Coastal Gas Link pipeline will receive crucial and dependable funds needed to feed, construct, and maintain camp through the monthly donor program.
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Contributing artists: (🔥check out this amazing list of artists!!!! omg🔥). @blood.moth, @drawingwolfstudio, @kiala.loytomaki.art, @beyon.wren.moor, @bugtattoos, @meaganberlin, @peachbaby.888, @emi.lynn.holler, @riversteeth, @animals.drawing.animals, @thoughtupsnorth, @peripeteiah, @eel_boy, @deserttattoos, @emily.rose.tattoos, @miamdelaglace, @terrydactel, @dranem.bag, @louzink, @rat666tat, @maryswcampbell, @godstooth, @leannethief, @thepartofyouthatgivesafuck & @cdmetisart, @moonflower.tattoo, @amarahollowbones, @lizard__milk, @_thisthat, @nicholas.jean.berger, @kittenwych, @needle.imprints, @softenough, @beet.nic
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SWAN - - protector of the forest - - with sagittarius, cancer and aquarius. thank you for choosing this one @mielvert and for asking me to add your zodiac signs 🖤
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monarch in the moon and stars, with goldenrod, rosemary, lavender, pine, turkey tail and chanterelle mushrooms. a beautiful memorial piece. thank you 🧡
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monarch in the moon and stars, with goldenrod, rosemary, lavender, pine, turkey tail and chanterelle mushrooms. a beautiful memorial piece. thank you 🧡
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#amarahollowbones #contemporarytattooing #contemporarytattoo #qttr #monarchtattoo #butterflytattoo #floraltattoo #botanicaltattoo #naturetattoo #mushroomtattoo #wildlifetattoo #botanicalart #bodyart #queerbodmodcompass #linework #lineworktattoo #finelinetattoo #fmlttr #queermagic #skinspells #traumainformed @ B13 The Bakers Dozen

✨new ways to support ✨ @theabortionproject

we got this design printed onto TOTE BAGS + PATCHES!! and they are now available!

PRE-ORDER NOW!

They will be ready to ship out February 24th!! .

TOTES $30USD/$35CAD
PATCHES $15USD/$20CAD
(shipping included😊) .

LINK TO ORDER: @theabortionproject

Venmo for the “US” and e-transfer for “Canada”. e-transfer the amount to ink@amarahollowbones.com include yr address and what you want in the note!

ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN
We're making care packages, hell yeah!
Have you [or someone you know] experienced an abortion? 1 in 4 people have an abortion at some point in their lifetime. We all have people in our lives who have had this pregnancy outcome and I’m sure we’d all want our loved ones to be supported during that time in their lives. So, here’s your chance!

Sarah and Heather are Full Spectrum Doulas working on a documentary photography project. The aim of the project is to demystify and detigmatize medical abortions across the United States and Canada. They are passionate about reaching people who find themselves needing an abortion and ensuring that as many of their needs are met during this time as possible. Which is why they want to send out care packages to people who may not have a support system in friends and family near by or aren't comfortable reaching out.

Care packages are a practical foundation for helping the person find comfort during and right after their experience.
Each care package may include [but isn't limited to]: For Physical Support:
Rice heating pad
Pads
Ginger Candy
Nourishing Tea
Tylenol
Herbal Vaginal Steaming Pack

For Emotional Support:
Journal
Educational And Entertaining Zine
Candle .

By purchasing one of these products you would be a part of sending some of this comfort and support to a person somewhere in your community. As well as supporting the logistical needs of the photography project such as gas, printing materials, office supplies, shipping costs, etc. Each box will cost roughly $40Uto assemble and ship to people all across the USA and Canada.
The artwork was designed by @amarahollowbones and printed by @antlerriverpress. The uterus is filled with plants of support

how bout that fire on this snowy brigid’s day🔥 we did this last summer at a fundraiser for barton prisoners solidarity project and obehi just sent me a healed pic of their tattoo. so here’s both! thank youuuuu!
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wild goose
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#amarahollowbones #goosetattoo #canadagoose #wildgoosetattoo #wildgeese #contemporarytattooing #contemporarytattoo #qttr #queerbodmodcompass #linework #lineworktattoo #blackwork #blxckink #finelinetattoo #fmlttr #queermagic #skinspells #traumainformed @ B13 The Bakers Dozen

freesia flowers for her grandmother, added to a little bundle of lavender flowers (not by me) thank you so very much @helentremethick 💜
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how bout that fire on this snowy brigid’s day🔥 we did this last summer at a fundraiser for barton prisoners solidarity project and obehi just sent me a healed pic of their tattoo. so here’s both! thank youuuuu!
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matchy sloths! 🖤
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matchy sloths! 🖤
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full moon tattoo on the super potent full moon eclipse!! had extra fun tattooing this memorial moon yesterday. thank you soooo much for sharing this magic with me, @sociallubricator 🌕 ps. they are fundraising for upcoming top surgery for all of you who can and want to support— see link in their bio or details at @assiniyiskew ‘s page ❤️😘
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the poofiest little anna’s hummingbirds for the wonderful @smalltalkings - i am so in love with how these sweet little birds look with this starry shirt!!!
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stormy winter || the sweetest stars

i am so excited to announce our upcoming guest artist! @kiala.loytomaki.art will be coming to @communityinkcollective january 8-11. and is now booking custom and flash work.
*kiala is a queer femme handpoke artist of italian, scottish, russian, indigenous saami lineages who works out of a private studio in sinixt territory. when at their home studio, a portion of the money they make goes towards the sinixt matriarch as a way of following the laws and protocols of that land.
*kiala offers custom working, loving the collaboration of creating a custom piece together, through listening to each persons story, their tattoos are woven from these shared stories and drawn in intentional ritual space. kiala feels most inspired by working with symbolism of plants, herbal medicine, the spirit realm and abstract geometry.
*to book with kiala- you can contact them through email: mailto:kialaloytomaki@gmail.com or dm: @kiala.loytomaki.art
****be sure to state it’s for a tattoo in london!****
I can’t wait to host kiala and work alongside each other! i resonate so strongly with how they work as an artist and space-holder in tattooing and we are so lucky to have them!!! <3 swipe to see some examples of their work, or go check out their page! @ B13 The Bakers Dozen

the poofiest little anna’s hummingbirds for the wonderful @smalltalkings - i am so in love with how these sweet little birds look with this starry shirt!!!
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dear diary today i tattooed three bees for a pile of total sweethearts. it was not only just plain fun and so damn cute but also truly magical. BUT LISTEN TO THIS @nweerasu (that’s their arm, the first bee) truly stole my heart by knowing i had a long day, so surprise-ordered dinner for me to be delivered so i could eat food before they all came. what the fuck!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 my love language is totally in surprise and thoughtful acts of love and support and my heart is completely bursting at the thoughtfulness of this astoundingly huge hearted human. omg. it was like the best birthday present ever and it’s not my birthday. but hey. it sure was a good bee-day! eh?!
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dear diary today i tattooed three bees for a pile of total sweethearts. it was not only just plain fun and so damn cute but also truly magical. BUT LISTEN TO THIS @nweerasu (that’s their arm, the first bee) truly stole my heart by knowing i had a long day, so surprise-ordered dinner for me to be delivered so i could eat food before they all came. what the fuck!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 my love language is totally in surprise and thoughtful acts of love and support and my heart is completely bursting at the thoughtfulness of this astoundingly huge hearted human. omg. it was like the best birthday present ever and it’s not my birthday. but hey. it sure was a good bee-day! eh?! .
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we’re doing a ✨flash day!!!✨ at @communityinkcollective! on friday the 13th of december. at 613 dundas st, starting at noon and going til at least 6 when the night market starts, which ends at midnight. and maybe we will just keep tattooing til then?! come find out. i’ll be there with @heyhandpoke and @flycatcherdiy.
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both @heyhandpoke and @flycatcherdiy are doing some pre-bookings too. see their flash in their pages and in my stories! and see their pages and dm them for info and to book! or just show up!
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. the first of our fundraisers for @rezonanceprinting’s indigenous youth screen printing internship program in deshkan ziibing. visit their page to see what this program is all about and the incredible opportunity this offers for youth— and see what last year’s hella talented and skilled artists have done.
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hiiiii! i was in the middle of awkwardly trying to take a selfie to announce this pop up market— when Lulu and T up and saved me! so here is both of our faces here to tell you: *friday the 13th of December* at 613 Dundas st, in The Bakers Dozen will be a big pop up market with A LOT of different vendors. like 17 or something ?! We will be having a flash tattoo day all day at Community Ink and staying open for this in the evening... and probably still tattooing. i’ll have moon calendars, patches, books, tote bags and probably more. and i’ve invited a bunch of pals to set up with us including @karalynreuben @harvestmoontradeco ❤️ thanks to @eclecticfox6 for organizing this and see their page for more info on the other artists.
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- - - lineage - - - grandmother ancestor tree holding the birthing mother in the mountains; seeding new growth, birthing the forests into the rivers of life. i am so thankful for such a beautiful collaboration with kristin, to bring her vision into the world, into her skin in this way. i loved being with this as i drew it and again as i tattooed it. thank you so much. (photo is taken the next day. )
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- - - lineage - - - grandmother ancestor tree holding the birthing mother in the mountains; seeding new growth, birthing the forests into the rivers of life. i am so thankful for such a beautiful collaboration with kristin, to bring her vision into the world, into her skin in this way. i loved being with this as i drew it and again as i tattooed it. thank you so much. (photo is taken the next day. )
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we’re doing a ✨flash day!!!✨ at @communityinkcollective! on friday the 13th of december. at 613 dundas st, starting at noon and going til at least 6 when the night market starts, which ends at midnight. and maybe we will just keep tattooing til then?! come find out. i’ll be there with @heyhandpoke and @flycatcherdiy.
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.swipe to see my flash! and to get a tattoo from me— prices range from 50-200, i will be pre-booking a few slots in the day and also leaving space open for walk-ins. to pre-book, please send me a dm or email with the piece you want, and time range you’re available for. then i will reply if the time and design are available and give you instructions to send me a deposit! (which might take me a few days)
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both @heyhandpoke and @flycatcherdiy are doing some pre-bookings too. see their flash in their pages and in my stories! and see their pages and dm them for info and to book! or just show up!
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.come hang out! get tattooed! wish robin a happy birthday and bring us snacks and stupid jokes!
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. the first of our fundraisers for @rezonanceprinting’s indigenous youth screen printing internship program in deshkan ziibing. visit their page to see what this program is all about and the incredible opportunity this offers for youth— and see what last year’s hella talented and skilled artists have done.
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#amarahollowbones #qttr #linework #lineworktattoo #queermagic #skinspells #traumainformed #queerartist #communityink #tattoofundraiser #flash #tattooflash #lndnont #oevlondon #519london #519lndn #ontariotattoos #londonontariotattoo @ B13 The Bakers Dozen

a goat! i got to tattoo a goat on a mountain with yarrow and nettle and daisy! i was so happy when erika asked me for this, who didn’t even know until we were tattooing that goats are my true loves and my lifeway and i’m actually a goat queen on exile. i got to share with her some of my many stories. and so, hidden in the swipe zone beyond this tattoo photo are pictures taken by @sophieamacklin of me and my dear capricious ones.❤️
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a goat! i got to tattoo a goat on a mountain with yarrow and nettle and daisy! i was so happy when erika asked me for this, who didn’t even know until we were tattooing that goats are my true loves and my lifeway and i’m actually a goat queen on exile. i got to share with her some of my many stories. and so, hidden in the swipe zone beyond this tattoo photo are pictures of me and my dear capricious ones.❤️
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a goat! i got to tattoo a goat on a mountain with yarrow and nettle and daisy! i was so happy when erika asked me for this, who didn’t even know until we were tattooing that goats are my true loves and my lifeway and i’m actually a goat queen on exile. i got to share with her some of my many stories. and so, hidden in the swipe zone beyond this tattoo photo are pictures of me and my dear capricious ones.❤️
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some years ago i healed myself/my cervix from a diagnosis of high grade cervical dysplasia “CIN3.” the healing was a magnificent and magical trip that brought me so much closer to myself and i did it all naturally, with a lot of community support and WITHOUT any of the typical invasive western medical procedures. and i’m sharing some of my story! my dear friend Dj Vjj @edgewise_sex_ed interviewed me about my experience which will be airing on “Pro-Frequency” WHIV 102.3FM New Orleans this Thursday at 3pm central time (1pm pacific, 2pm mountain, 4pm eastern and so on...) you can listen to it live on the radio or live stream it at whivfm.org. it’s intense and personal as fuck and i feel vulnerable sharing! and it’s all so important.
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some years ago i healed myself/my cervix from a diagnosis of high grade cervical dysplasia “CIN3.” the healing was a magnificent and magical trip that brought me so much closer to myself and i did it all naturally, with a lot of community support and WITHOUT any of the typical invasive western medical procedures. and i’m sharing some of my story! my dear friend Dj Vjj @edgewise_sex_ed interviewed me about my experience which will be airing on “Pro-Frequency” WHIV 102.3FM New Orleans this Thursday at 3pm central time (1pm pacific, 2pm mountain, 4pm eastern and so on...) you can listen to it live on the radio or live stream it at whivfm.org. it’s intense and personal as fuck and i feel vulnerable sharing! and it’s all so important.
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this weekend on the scumbag runway! these patches were printed in MAY and i finally listed them this week. (link in bio) oh my gosh. i’m really in love with them all, and sometimes/most of the time it’s the pieces most precious to me that i take the longest time to share and let go of.
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#amarahollowbones #silkscreen #screenprinting #backpatches #punkhautecouture #highfashion #lowfashion #upcycled #recycledfashion #backpatch #fashionweek #queermagic #queerart #queerartist #qttr #diyfashion #makebelieve #makersmovement @ London, Ontario

six golden bands, in honour of her nonna and a spin on a tradition of the women in her family. for @a._rachel_.a 💛💛💛💛💛💛thanks old pal!
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#amarahollowbones #linetattoo #armbandtattoo #armbandtattoos #colourtattoos #qttr #fmlttr #colortattoos #colorlinework #memorialtattoo

six golden bands, in honour of her nonna and a spin on a tradition of the women in her family. for @a._rachel_.a 💛💛💛💛💛💛thanks old pal!
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bull kelp!!! for shawn, coming right out of the armpit and just sat like it ain’t no thing. swipe to see details. i LOVE drawing and tattooing seaweed so much and i’m deeply obsessed with this tattoo ♡ ♡ ♡ thank you so much!
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#amarahollowbones #seaweedtattoo #botanicaltattoo #oceantattoo #naturetattoo #bullkelp #bullkelptattoo #bullkelpdrawing #qttr #queermagic #queersinnature #queerfashion #fmlttr #ontariotattoos #queerbodmodcompass #linework #linetattoo #finelinetattoo #dotwork #blackwork #blackworktattoo @ London, Ontario

hiiiii! i’m ecstatically in love with and devoted to the moon and the dark mother and here’s me cackling in wonderous lunacy to announce this coming years moon calendars have been printed and are full of grammas and stars and birth and decay in all their glory. if you want one you can order one directly through these means: choose one of these options and leave your address in the notes and make sure it’s clear how many and what sizes you’re ordering if you’re ordering more than one.
***i will be starting to send them all out in a couple weeks***
venmo: amarahollowbones
paypal: ink@amarahollowbones.com
e-transfer: ink@amarahollowbones.com
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prices include shipping!
for the wall-size:
18$CDN in “canada”
15$USD in “USA”
19$USD everywhere else
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for the pocket size:
9$CDN in “canada”
7$USD in “USA”
9$USD everywhere else
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thanks to all you sweet moon dreamers. they will be listed up in my store soon! (link in bio)
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poppy plant with a flower and two pods for marbo. what a spot! swipe to see the full view and some closeups with a peek of a healed one from last year on their hip.
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#amarahollowbones #papaversomniferum #poppytattoo #opiumpoppy #opiumpoppytattoo #botany #botanicaldrawing #botanicaltattoo #qttr #queermagic #queertattoo #queertattooartist #fmlttr #queerbodmodcompass #ontariotattoos #skinspells #blackwork #linework #linetattoo #finelinetattoo #floraltattoo #naturetattoo

poppy plant with a flower and two pods for marbo. what a spot! swipe to see the full view and some closeups with a peek of a healed one from last year on their hip.
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#amarahollowbones #papaversomniferum #poppytattoo #opiumpoppy #opiumpoppytattoo #botany #botanicaldrawing #botanicaltattoo #qttr #queermagic #queertattoo #queertattooartist #fmlttr #queerbodmodcompass #ontariotattoos #skinspells #blackwork #linework #linetattoo #finelinetattoo #floraltattoo #naturetattoo

haaaaaaaay! we have a big gay announcement! my sweet pals kevin @communityink, sarah lee @handpokedw.love and i are opening a QUEER tattoo studio together!!! in the anishnaabeg, haudenosaunee, attawandaron wendat territories fed by the kind antler river//deshkanziibi in london, ontario.
we are renovating and expanding upon kevin’s existing project COMMUNITY INK to hold all three of us and the magic we bring. i am thrilled to share a space with these super sweet humans. sarah @handpokedw.love and kevin @communityink are seriously such radical and sweet people. swipe to see some pictures of them and their work! they both bring their hearts and compassion and ethics into tattooing in ways that truly resonate and compliment my own practice. it means the world to me to create alongside these two other artists who hold meaningful, inclusive, conscious, safe(r) and healing space with the work they bring. we all practice tattooing as an intentional and healing art in our own ways. i am so thrilled to be continuing to queer the fuck out of the tattoo world with more rad friends it’s so awesome! i can’t wait to meet all the folks who will come into this space, the events we will hold and the cute and queer guest artists we will host in our new space!
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#amarahollowbones #queertattoo #qttr #queerartists #queertattooartist #queermagic #queerlove #queerart #ontariotattoos #ontariotattooartist #lndnont #ldnont #londonontario #fmlttr #queerbodmodcompass #southernontario #ilovemyfriends #gay #queerfashion #skinspells #witchcraft #healingarts
@ London, Ontario

dark moon. changing winds. darkening skies. the balance tipped. the rains return. mushroom season. back we go, into the soil 🖤

blue cohosh in late fall... berries that last. a couple leaves just holding on before they fall into the roots.
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thank you so very much to neka who came to me with the idea of a dreamy magical starlit misty redwood forest, filled with ferns and slumbering creatures, dripping water. please swipe to see closeups of all the many creatures! neka travelled to me from rochester twice for two epic sessions and asked me to sign this tattoo for them too, so sweet. i had such a fun time bringing this world to life on their back! ♡ wow.
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#amarahollowbones #queermagic #qttr #queertattoo #queertattooartist #skinspells #healingarts #redwoodforest #magicaltattoo #mysticaltattoo #witchcraft #botanicaltattoo #foresttattoo #redwoodtrees #wildlifetattoo #naturetattoo #linework #blackworkers #blackworktattoo #btattooing #ecology #redwoodtattoo #treetattoo #landscapetattoo #blackwork #ontariotattoos #foxtattoo @ London, Ontario

blue cohosh in late fall... berries that last. a couple leaves just holding on before they fall into the roots.
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sweetgrass encircling cedar, with tobacco, sage and feather. it was a joy to tattoo @franceselizabeth83’s medicines on a stormy full moon day! miigwetch for our time together and for trusting me to bring these to your skin! ♡
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sweetgrass encircling cedar, with tobacco, sage and feather. it was a joy to tattoo @franceselizabeth83’s medicines on a stormy full moon day! miigwetch for our time together and for trusting me to bring these to your skin! ♡
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a weeping willow and sun for kaitlyn. i love drawing and tattooing willows so much!swipe to see some detail shots and some different angles.
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We're making care packages, hell yeah!

Hey all. i teamed up with Sarah of @sacred__transitions to design this shirt in support of yet another amazing community project she’s doing in support of people in birth, pregnancy, abortion and miscarriage. Read more below, but in short, click the link https://www.bonfire.com/support-all-outcomes/ , buy a beautiful shirt, support someone in their abortion experience.
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Have you [or someone you know] experienced an abortion? 1 in 4 people have an abortion at some point in their lifetime. We all have people in our lives who have had this pregnancy outcome and I’m sure we’d all want our loved ones to be supported during that time in their lives. So, here’s your chance!

Sarah and Heather are Full Spectrum Doulas passionate about reaching people who find themselves needing an abortion and ensuring that as many of their needs are met during this time as possible. Which is why they want to send out care packages to people who may not have a support system in friends and family near by or aren't comfortable reaching out.

Care packages are a practical foundation for helping the person find comfort during and right after their experience.

Each care package may include [but isn't limited to]:

For Physical Support:
Rice heating pad
Pain relief tincture
Pads
Floradix
Ginger Candy
Nourishing tea

For Emotional Support:
Rescue Remedy
Journal
Educational Booklet
Candle

By purchasing one of these shirts you would be a part of sending some of this comfort and support to a person somewhere in your community. Each box will cost roughly $60 to assemble and ship to people all across the USA.

The artwork on the shirt was designed by @amarahollowbones. The uterus is filled with plants of support.
https://www.bonfire.com/support-all-outcomes/
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a basking shark for susan, swimming through the suns rays hitting the water. has everyone out there heard of basking sharks?!!! they are amazing.
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Coming up! I am so excited to be teaming up with @handpokedw.love and @communityink on Prisoner's Justice Day (August 10) for The Tower’s second ever flash-tattoo fundraiser! This time we're raising funds for the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project, and folks facing charges for defending pride and their community. Sign up starts at 10 am at 778 Barton st. east, Hamilton, ON.
This time around, funds will be split between the "Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project", and a legal fund for folks facing charges for defending Pride and their community.

Barton jail is a local detention/remand center pretty well known for shitty conditions and overcrowding - and more recently for a series of ongoing drug overdoses resulting in deaths.

The Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project aims to reduce the isolation that prison walls create by advocating for better prisoner conditions, drawing attention to the idea of and advocating for abolition, offering hard copy info about the jail and supports to families/friends, setting up a phone line to help facilitate communications between folks inside and their supports (in cases where their families may not know they were picked up) and a PO box to start longer-term prisoner correspondence.

Funds will also go towards people facing charges for defending Pride from violent extreme-right homophobes and their community by amplifying the voices of trans, non-binary and queer voices.

On June 15, 2019 religious right wing extremists came to Hamilton's Pride celebration with homophobic and transphobic signs. When a crew of unknown, pink masked individuals used a large black banner to try and obscure signs the extremists reacted with immediate violence, punching, kicking and using a helmet to beat people. Since then, police have focused on finding and charging the pink-masked individuals who acted in defense of pride, prompting others to raise shit in city counsel chambers, and at the house of the mayor. They demanded that charges be dropped only to incur further charges themselves.
#freecedar #acab #tattoofundraiser #flashfundraiser #prisonersjusticeday @ The Tower

hi it’s me and some very epic monarda didyma here to tell you i uncovered 4 more 2019 moon calendars! who wants one? pay whatever you want, plus shipping. send me a dm. 🖤 these are definitely the very last ones ! and 2020 calendars will be out in a couple months!
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come visit your favourite gay 90s couple and see @morningstarrceramics most beautiful ceramics and see me doing a great job as their useful gay accessory @punkrockfleamarketlondon 11-5 @ Call The Office

Coming up! I am so excited to be teaming up with @handpokedw.love and @communityink on Prisoner's Justice Day (August 10) for The Tower’s second ever flash-tattoo fundraiser! This time we're raising funds for the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project, and folks facing charges for defending pride and their community. Sign up starts at 10 am at 778 Barton st. east, Hamilton, ON.
This time around, funds will be split between the "Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project", and a legal fund for folks facing charges for defending Pride and their community.

Barton jail is a local detention/remand center pretty well known for shitty conditions and overcrowding - and more recently for a series of ongoing drug overdoses resulting in deaths.

The Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project aims to reduce the isolation that prison walls create by advocating for better prisoner conditions, drawing attention to the idea of and advocating for abolition, offering hard copy info about the jail and supports to families/friends, setting up a phone line to help facilitate communications between folks inside and their supports (in cases where their families may not know they were picked up) and a PO box to start longer-term prisoner correspondence.

Funds will also go towards people facing charges for defending Pride from violent extreme-right homophobes and their community by amplifying the voices of trans, non-binary and queer voices.

On June 15, 2019 religious right wing extremists came to Hamilton's Pride celebration with homophobic and transphobic signs. When a crew of unknown, pink masked individuals used a large black banner to try and obscure signs the extremists reacted with immediate violence, punching, kicking and using a helmet to beat people. Since then, police have focused on finding and charging the pink-masked individuals who acted in defense of pride, prompting others to raise shit in city counsel chambers, and at the house of the mayor. They demanded that charges be dropped only to incur further charges themselves.
#freecedar #acab #tattoofundraiser #flashfundraiser #prisonersjusticeday @ The Tower

medicinal wild flowers - bee balm, echinacea, yarrow, dandelion, lavender, cedar, chamomile, fern. wrapping around her shoulder for @jessi.eli.joan, expanding on the lilac that was tattooed by another artist.
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grief and gratitude for the bees//a safe nest to hold them 🧡
a thousand thankyous to @chriswinterson who asked for this tattoo from me, after graciously hosting me this week at the beautiful shared studio and gallery @torchlighttattoo / @risingmoongallery. i was so touched to connect with chris and be around him as he tattoos - to witness and experience the space he holds as a cis man as he very intentionally tattoos as an art and healing practice; while holding space for, naming, rejecting and transforming the misogynist abusive trash that is far too commonplace in the tattoo world. i am so inspired and honoured to have shared this space and create alongside @chriswinterson @andreahildebrandcraft and @cdmetisart and to have been asked to tattoo both chris and catherine and to leave a bundle of art to be displayed and sold in the space with all of their work! ! ! how DREAMY
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arnica plant with a little touch of antiquey-ochre yellows. for vanessa’s first tattoo! so special!
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medicinal wild flowers - bee balm, echinacea, yarrow, dandelion, lavender, cedar, chamomile, fern. wrapping around her shoulder for @jessi.eli.joan, expanding on the lilac that was tattooed by another artist.
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the beginnings of much much more to come... a piece about the hands of mother earth knitting the world... here is a peak of what we started with- one of the hands coming out of a birch tree, knitting the sky... i can’t wait to keep going, this is such a beautiful and epic idea @knitcoleknits came to me with! heck yeah for fibre arts coming together with tattoos. it’s the best.
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black cap raspberries—a three year cycle: first year cane (primocane), fruiting cane (floricane) and a third year, dead cane. thank you so much, tay! hell yeah for tattooing raspberries in raspberry season! this is my first tattoo of the week at the lovely studio @torchlighttattoo. i feel super inspired and held working in this beautiful space.
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oyster mushrooms growing out of their leg. i love this idea so much. a million thank yous to atlas for choosing me!
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black cap raspberries—a three year cycle: first year cane (primocane), fruiting cane (floricane) and a third year, dead cane. thank you so much, tay! hell yeah for tattooing raspberries in raspberry season! this is my first tattoo of the week at the lovely studio @torchlighttattoo. i feel super inspired and held working in this beautiful space.
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yesterday i got to make this tattoo of tobacco/semaa for an artist whose work i love! @cdmetisart came to me with a concept sketch and asked me to draw it in my style. such a great collaboration with @cdmetisart who is apprenticing to be a tattoo artist at @torchlighttattoo!! i’m so excited for when catherine’s art comes to life in human skin!!! check out her work ❤️
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rooting, healing, reaching up toward the sky and down into to earth. among wild gardens//the bundle she carries//the bundles we carry. for jess. ♥️
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rooting, healing, reaching up toward the sky and down into to earth. among wild gardens//the bundle she carries//the bundles we carry. for jess. ♥️
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i had the great honour of tattooing these matching oak leaves and each other’s initials for carissa and sam in a ceremony to celebrate their love and commitment to each other with all their friends and family there in the most beautiful place. the ceremony was so simple and beautiful and perfect. these people are amazing and i’m so happy to say i made such sweet new friends out of it all! i can’t believe it’s already been almost two weeks! 🌹 @riz.ds great photos by @hopewell.media
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i would love to make more ritual/ceremonial tattoos in beautiful spaces! i live for this! i have the ability to be mobile and have an external power source (aka my beautiful truck’s battery and a power inverter) to be able to tattoo anywhere 🌸
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an epic, three-session cover-up that we finally finished!!! yes!!! poppies, roses, peonies, sunflower and sweet peas with falling starlight and a butterfly. the falling stars that look kind of puckered at the moment and butterfly lines (re-work of the original butterfly) are fresh along with a few lines here and there, the rest is from april and june. thank you @utley5lambeth !!
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yesterday’s tattoo for karen. little one under the apple tree cawing with the crows. what a precious and meaningful tattoo to be asked to do 🖤
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a weeping willow tree growing from a heart. oh how i love weeping willows, and such a beautiful choice in placement. this was so special to make for @drew.lefou (back in april! when it was still cold!) and was a heck of a lot of fun, too❤️
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i am honoured to have given lisa her first tattoo! a budding tree along the river bank that splits into three, holding a cluster of amethyst growing with lily of the valley, bleeding heart and snow drops with three bees flying. so much power and meaning in this one and such a wonderful experience 💜💜💜 this tattoo was done at the end of april and these pictures were taken a few days later at @punkrockfleamarketlondon
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i got to snap this great picture of hailey @art_therapy_in_action and her few-weeks healed birthday tattoo while we were all out dancing! this one is a little different for me- an enso with little birds coming from the paint drops. i’m happy with how it turned out.
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the moon is still dark, maybe we’ll see the first crescent tomorrow night in the glow of the late night summer sunset. the fireflies are at their brightest, and where i am in great lakes the mulberries and saskatoon berries are ripe! wild roses, monarda, hypericum and milkweed are blooming and everything feels full and wild and dancing and beautiful. i am feeling these loons draped in starlight, as i’m singing with the waters and rising up to fly with a strength that feels new but really i think is just the strength that i have been walking with all this time- and it got me here to a place where for now i feel just a little less burdened, where i’m not using every bit of strength to heal and make it through and i can just feel how much of this strength i’ve been cultivating in all this time and i get to drink it in and let it hold me and fill me and lift me up, not just get me through. these last two turns of the moon i have been strong enough and connected to myself and a sense of safety enough to cry just about daily. and with that grieving and crying i have been standing up for myself, believing in my feelings and not letting myself get talked out of them, i have quit gaslighting myself and with all this all my chronic shoulder pain (that most people don’t know i experience) has totally gone. and i attribute it to no longer armoring myself against huge feelings and immense grief. i feel a growing capacity to feel all things - pain and grief and joy and that’s the healing. seasons and states of being and feelings come and go. sometimes it’s too much to feel it all. but for now i’m revelling in this and believing in the strength of vulnerability. i hope for us all to let ourselves feel it all. to believe in our intuitions, listen to the wisdom in our instincts, dare to set boundaries even if we feel guilty about it, dare to believe in and not talk ourselves out of our feelings, and to know it’s a strength and a gift to cry and grieve and laugh and to want something and to need something. let’s keep getting fuckin’ loony.

the moon is still dark, maybe we’ll see the first crescent tomorrow night in the glow of the late night summer sunset. the fireflies are at their brightest, and where i am in great lakes the mulberries and saskatoon berries are ripe! wild roses, monarda, hypericum and milkweed are blooming and everything feels full and wild and dancing and beautiful. i am feeling these loons draped in starlight, as i’m singing with the waters and rising up to fly with a strength that feels new but really i think is just the strength that i have been walking with all this time- and it got me here to a place where for now i feel just a little less burdened, where i’m not using every bit of strength to heal and make it through and i can just feel how much of this strength i’ve been cultivating in all this time and i get to drink it in and let it hold me and fill me and lift me up, not just get me through. these last two turns of the moon i have been strong enough and connected to myself and a sense of safety enough to cry just about daily. and with that grieving and crying i have been standing up for myself, believing in my feelings and not letting myself get talked out of them, i have quit gaslighting myself and with all this all my chronic shoulder pain (that most people don’t know i experience) has totally gone. and i attribute it to no longer armoring myself against huge feelings and immense grief. i feel a growing capacity to feel all things - pain and grief and joy and that’s the healing. seasons and states of being and feelings come and go. sometimes it’s too much to feel it all. but for now i’m revelling in this and believing in the strength of vulnerability. i hope for us all to let ourselves feel it all. to believe in our intuitions, listen to the wisdom in our instincts, dare to set boundaries even if we feel guilty about it, dare to believe in and not talk ourselves out of our feelings, and to know it’s a strength and a gift to cry and grieve and laugh and to want something and to need something. let’s keep getting fuckin’ loony.

flowers from all the many places of homes, with tracings of her two sons’ hands. mountain laurel, white pine, dogwood, violet, garlic scapes and peas. thank you so much kiera ❤️ this was my last tattoo in north carolina!
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#amarahollowbones #botanicaltattoo #qttr #queertattooartist #queerart #contemporarytattoo #contemporarytattooing #floraltattoo #flowertattoo #lineworktattoo #linework #finelinetattoo #naturetattoo #queerbodmodcompass #queer #queermagic #fmlttr @ Black Mountain, North Carolina

flowers from all the many places of homes, with tracings of her two sons’ hands. mountain laurel, white pine, dogwood, violet, garlic scapes and peas. thank you so much kiera ❤️ this was my last tattoo in north carolina!
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#amarahollowbones #botanicaltattoo #qttr #queertattooartist #queerart #contemporarytattoo #contemporarytattooing #floraltattoo #flowertattoo #lineworktattoo #linework #finelinetattoo #naturetattoo #queerbodmodcompass #queer #queermagic #fmlttr @ Black Mountain, North Carolina

i am honoured to have given lisa her first tattoo! a budding tree along the river bank that splits into three, holding a cluster of amethyst growing with lily of the valley, bleeding heart and snow drops with three bees flying. so much power and meaning in this one and such a wonderful experience 💜💜💜 this tattoo was done at the end of april and these pictures were taken a few days later at @punkrockfleamarketlondon
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#amarahollowbones @lisa_rn88 #contemporarytattoo #contemporarytattooing #linework #lineworktattoo #botanicaltattoo #floraltattoo #naturetattoo #finelinetattoo #halfsleevetattoo #fmlttr #qttr #flowertattoo #treetattoo @ London, Ontario

happy new moon! i am excited to announce i will soon return to the great lakes region as the berries ripen *and* special announcement for you kitchener/waterloo/guelph etc folks!!! i will be hosted as a guest tattooer at @torchlighttattoo in waterloo, july 23-27. i am thrilled to be invited to such a beautiful and open-feeling space to create amongst these other artists who i am so looking forward to sharing space with: @chriswinterson @andreahildebrandcraft and @cdmetisart
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a blue heron, standing one foot in the water. thank you so very much @cicadaking for choosing me for this very special tattoo. herons are one of my most favourite birds 💙
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bloodroot emergence. sanguinaria. unfurling from the depths.
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happy new moon! i am excited to announce i will soon return to the great lakes region as the berries ripen *and* special announcement for you kitchener/waterloo/guelph etc folks!!! i will be hosted as a guest tattooer at @torchlighttattoo in waterloo, july 23-27. i am thrilled to be invited to such a beautiful and open-feeling space to create amongst these other artists who i am so looking forward to sharing space with: @chriswinterson @andreahildebrandcraft and @cdmetisart
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little wild strawbs and fiddleheads!made for @chelseadobertkehn, at @heartofgoldbodyarts. a drawing i had already done of one of my most favourite magical plants everrrr and i love chelsea’s suggestion of adding these fiddleheads and how it’s growing off of this shoulder spiral. ❤️
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verrrrrry special matchies for very special people @lillunch and john. pine trees, dogwood flowers, bound by roots and runes. plus check out lillie’s perfect and beautiful shirt to wear for getting this back tattoo! made by @serpentandbow 💙 it was so cool to meet these folks and see this dreamy fashion that i admire in person.
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an osprey to cover an owl, with a little brown in the feathers; another epic cover-up at @heartofgoldbodyarts for my friend caitlin. (swipe to see the original). the branch and clouds were already there, our plan is to keep going and continue to work with/add to what is there... perhaps sitting in a crumbling nest.
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verrrrrry special matchies for very special people @lillunch and john. pine trees, dogwood flowers, bound by roots and runes. plus check out lillie’s perfect and beautiful shirt to wear for getting this back tattoo! made by @serpentandbow 💙 it was so cool to meet these folks and see this dreamy fashion that i admire in person.
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cardinal with babies in a nest, two black vultures, and a little fawn in the rain. first time these three have been printed as patches and i’m sooo excited about them. i’ll have them all at @punkrockfleamarketlondon on sunday! come on out! and they’ll be listed up on etsy soon after.
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cardinal with babies in a nest, two black vultures, and a little fawn in the rain. first time these three have been printed as patches and i’m sooo excited about them. i’ll have them all at @punkrockfleamarketlondon on sunday! come on out! and they’ll be listed up on etsy soon after.
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the transformative beginnings of a very epic cover up! a wild and magical starry nighttime scene of unfurling ferns, dragonflies, conifers and crumbling rocks. i’m excited for more starry/firefly/faerie orbs and filling in of the dark sky to come. suuuuuuuch a special and magical tattoo i loved doing this! .
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our evening took a turn for the unexpectedly epic with an on-the-fly decision to do a rather huge cover up — crescent moon, fireflies, the night sky filled with stars and a coven of owls (flock of geese... murder of crows... coven of owls... right?) thank you sooooo much to @fromwithinorwithout for trusting me to pull this out of the ethers and into their skin. i’m very honoured and this was incredibly fun!
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i was going through a bunch of pocket-calendar misprints and cutting them up to make little cards cuz why not. i came across this one and my first thought was “oooh yesss it’s the perfect thank you card” cuz i genuinely love the beauty of the dark and real shit: like life-giving, blood shed, deep nourishment, etc but then my second thought of was... does this sort of read as cynical sarcastic like “thank you for ripping my guts open?” “thank you for your sacrifice/martyrdom, it’s surely killing like this goat over here” and maybe that’s actually great also? i usually get my sacred irreverence out in basically all ways other than art... i never thought til now maybe this picture could also be kind of hilarious? but it’s really so not funny? ha. ha. ... ha?
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i’m thrilled to be a part of this upcoming art show amongst so many incredible artists at Torchlight tattoo in waterloo, ON. @torchlighttattoo The show opens april 28th at 1pm, opening reception is 6-8pm with performances by hip hop artist @ayna_leigh and haudenosaunee singer/drummer Cara Loft. swipe to see the works of some of the other artists: (in order) @monique.aura @cdmetisart @patrickhunter_art @andreahildebrandcraft @chriswinterson @kevin.gadomski. also, not shown, is @weedy_mack.

*** i also need to acknowledge that the term “feminine” is very sadly often used/associated these days with a form of exclusion, violence, bio-essentialism, and reinforcing a binary, an attitude most often reinforced by white women. it pains me that it’s been so tainted that i feel complicated about my association with this word. SO, just to be clear: that is NOT this show, nor the use of the word feminine here. i experience this word as deep and layered and inherently and necessarily QUEER and of the EARTH and is therefore all-encompassing and epic and fierce and responds to the destruction of the earth in powerful and healing ways and is beyond any abusive binary, etc. feel free to contact me if you would like to have more of this conversation. @ Torchlight Tattoo

this nurturing and ferocious warrior of birth and blood and body and cycles came to life on the last new moon for my incredible friend @sacred__transitions. beneath the cycling moon and crowned by motherwort, she holds a baby to her breast in one hand, placenta in the other. riding a whale, blood dripping down her legs absorbed into a saddle of yarrow. this image was born out of a vision sarah had; and i invite you to her page to read it in her own words. having the opportunity to be so intimate with this powerful vision, turning it into a drawing, and tattooing this piece was so incredible— such a living spell on skin dedicated to work in the world that is so close to my heart. not to mention it was almost 10 hours in one session and her first tattoo, and was so easy going and fun to do. i am so fucking grateful to walk in the world and collaborate with such an inspiring badass, wearing this piece as her commitment to future generations and reproductive autonomy for all and she is seriously following through. ❤️❤️❤️ fuck yes.
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four years ago today! the sweetest glowing bean was birthed into the world and into our lives on the ides of march from our dearest rebecca and iridaea. here’s to the love and strength and life of this babe, our magic, our magical family, and this family’s love that reaches through all the realms❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

i’m so super excited to announce i will be doing a guest spot at Heart of Gold Body Arts in hendersonville, north carolina, may 14-20. i am now taking names for appointments! please DM or email hollowbones@riseup.net to send me your ideas! i can’t wait to meet all of you, and kerry burke, and @the_tinyfire and all the other rad artists there.
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starry mountains and crescent moon pillow cover in brown, golds, blues, deep purples... custom made for @astarrbat’s partner’s birthday. ugh. i LOVED getting lost in these colours. thanks so much aidan 🌙 .
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tattooing this portal to a cape breton seascape yesterday was an absolute dream! it came together from far too many magical synchronicities to name. i’m so grateful for the chance to connect with this incredibly special person and the experience of tattooing a landscape so dear to my heart and of my bones— the lands where my father was born. i continue to feel so honoured to bring such meaning to life into someone’s skin... and i feel so lucky for the places i get to be taken while connecting so intimately with anothers magic; being welcomed to be touched and affected by these special worlds of symbols and meaning. so much thanks to paige— and to everyone i’ve tattooed— for the trust in going there together.
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remembering what is hidden dormant beneath the snow and ice... here is a sweet little side-boob purple aster tattooed earlier this winter, to balance a stalk of goldenrod on the other side. i loved doing these sweet little subtle colour tattoos 💜
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a pillow to tell a story of ireland for the sweet grandparents of @smorningstarr .
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thanks to a little nudge from someone out there here is a photo of all the embroidered/appliqué patches i have made over the last while: a few are listed, more will be soon... send me a message if you’re interested in one of these before i list them! books and pouches and bags to come soon... and thanks courtney for gettin’ me going with sharing them.
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in the darkest days of winter, longest nights and fullest moon, this ancestor of the stars came into the flesh to walk with @will.oh.the.wisp . i am so so ever grateful to have the chance in this life to share moments with people like this dear one- to share an old and kindred magic and language is an incredible life line in this world. to draw something that is truly a spirit coming through and have someone unquestionably called to walk with this magic - and reflect back to me pieces of what i felt while this being first came through... oh my gosh it is such a gift, so affirming and strengthening. thank you from the heartbeats of my spirit.
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here’s a little dandelion busting up the ground with that tenacious root!
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a fennel-heart in honour of our dear one, fennel the dog. sassy rascal of our hearts!may she rest in power. .#fennelthedawg
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this years 2019 moon calendar marks the 7th year in a row i have been sharing these calendars. a moon calendar that shifts our awareness away from the gregorian calendar and calls us to pay attention to the moon cycles and calls us into relation. each page begins with the new moon, and while the dates are present and arranged in typical calendar format (example: new moon, tuesday july 2nd) there is focus on the moon as the beginning each cycle/month because really, these are the true cycles the the calendar was based on but got skewed and simplified. i actually made the first calendar in 2008 but never shared it... while living on land and really deepening and forming my own connections and understandings of myself in relation to place, and the moon. i needed to form my own calendar based in place-- to track the seasonal patterns in relation to each other, the emerging of leaves, the blooming of flowers, the ripening of berries, the arrival of migratory birds, animal behaviours, weather patterns, my own cycles and moods, community dynamics. it means a lot to me to now share this every year, to bring these gathered pieces of my earth magic together in a way that i hope will inspire and help guide more and more of us back to ourselves into a precious and self guided relationship with earth and place. and to reconnect or deepen connection with our bodies and the moon. .
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another flash piece for this weekend! so happy someone chose this one!
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it's a mural! painted this bouquet at Wildflowers Farm on monday. roughly 4 x 4 feet! as someone who is used to working so so tiny it was cool to expand this type of typically fine and tiny work into a much bigger space. i'm super happy with how it looks in this space. thanks Wildflowers Farm
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pillows; the rain and snow and stars of the many seasons. stitching landscapes... forests... skies... feeding dreams. i began making these pillows for myself, i have four on my bed; to surround myself with an abstracted layered beauty; for when i need to bury my heart and face into these stitched together worlds that really are made as a healing process, to live in the silence of this process, getting lost in how he fabrics come together in the emerging layers when i'm making them... then to embrace and be embraced by art.
here is one, and six holding it down together. DM if you are called to having one made for you, or go visit TAP Centre for Creativity to find these ones until december 20.
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just finished a whole lot of new textile work that i'm really excited about. a lot of pillows, hand bound books, wall pieces... more... a lot - including these pillows and their complimentary pairs will be up on display and for sale at "CRAFTED" at @tapcreativityon november 27-dec 20. (203 dundas st. london, ontario) it's a group show and sale of other craft-based artists. opening reception is 6-8 nov. 27th i'm excited to see what all the other artists are showing and i would love to have friends come out!
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held in the moonlight... stitching the spirit back together into self - love.
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thank you @out_of_my_mind_creative for giving me the freedom to create this piece 🖤
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a cauldron boiling over with fire and stars. such a perfect way to be together with the new moon//lunar samhain for an incredibly special witch @will.oh.the.wisp ... this is the beginnings of a much larger and very exciting piece-- i cannot wait for the rest!!! 🖤🖤🖤
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We are creatures of the earth. However in touch we have become, or still are, or however disconnected we may be from our ancestral traditions, magic, and places there is a deep remembering in each of us that is far older than any 'knowledge.' We carry the songs of the earth and our ancestors in our bones. We are in a mutually dependent relationship with the earth and if we are willing to listen, to ask and to welcome the many responses then we will hear our bones rumbling with the beat of the earth, our blood flowing with the pulse of the rivers and our breath harmonizing with the wind. May we speak in a language that is growing, alive and changing, a language of place. May we continue to discover and remember from where we've come, and listen to the whispers of our ancestors within us, the stories of our elders, the dreams of our descendants and the call of our wild beating hearts in the moonlight. .
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both the wall sizes and pocket sizes of this years moon calendar are now officially printed and listed up in my etsy shop- link in bio. 🖤. amarahollowbones.etsy.com
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hi all i've returned to southern ontario, to the antlered river, deshkan ziibiing, this place i love so much, for fall into winter. my books are open and i'm booking tattoo appointments now for november into december. dm or email hollowbones@riseup.net
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a cimaruta - a magical italian protection charm; traditionally made in the shape of a branch of rue, for my friend @sawyer_bird last month. i love bringing intention and magic into tattooing and it is a huge honour and so inspiring/encouraging for me to work with so many people of different lineages and learn and share about their ancestral stories and magic of place. thanks pal!! ❤️
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oh how i loved getting to know the spirit of this kitchen witch summoned to be tattooed for @velvet_hammer666 such a fun time! thankxxx
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thank you @themoonchilde for sharing with me your heart and magic and this experience we had together of tattooing these antlers with holly, oxalis, blackberry, mugwort and sword fern ❤️
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it was so wonderful to tattoo this magic and catch up with this friend @sweetielynnepiper in portland last week. words cannot express how much i love this trust and intimacy and all that arises when bringing about such deep meaningful works of magic to be carried on skin ❤️❤️❤️
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delphinium, lavender and a hummingbird for the amazing and beautiful @pw_sunshine4 ❤️❤️❤️
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some tattoos from the last couple months

most recent tattoo i did-- wild orchids.

a couple tattoos from last year

i had so much fun tattooing this on a friend this wednesday-- so nice for a rainy afternoon.

Aveena Sativa and owl tattoos

snake mountains and Sasquatch faerie

added flowers to the flower of life... just as the spring flowers start blooming

so much fun when friends I love are covered in my art... skirt and tattoos. <3

Ontario friends-- I'm in London with my tattoo machines! Message me if you want tattoos while i'm here!

did this tonight-- super fun!

tattoos from this last moon

honoured to ink this one #redraspberry #raspberryleaf #amarahollowbones #moonmedicine #lineworktattoo #blxckink #blackwork #qttr

had an amazing fun day yesterday that started with this cover up on @podtree featuring a guest visit from a scary little dinosaur cat, followed by berry picking #amarahollowbones #coverup #linework #linetattoo #mooncycletattoo #moontattoo #mooncycles #qttr #blxckink #blackworkerssubmission #blacktattoo

new moon, new page on the moon calendar. these bad girls are going on sale for half off as we're halfway through the lunar year. etsy.com/shop/amarahollowbones. #newmoon #mooncycles #mooncalendar #lunarcalendar #amarahollowbones #darkartists

painting from some years ago that not too many folks have seen. little fishing shacks

tree drawing inspired by the escarpment forests of the grand river gorge.

detail of the heart storm #qttr #iblackwork #blackworkerssubmission #blackwork #dotwork #dotworktattoo #lineworktattoo #linework #blacktattoo #darkartists #amarahollowbones

workin on the #mooncalendar sort of a little behind this year but it's almost done and I think it's gonna be a good one.

yesterday's sweet little self-love spell with @brebribruh #queermagic #qttr #amarahollowbones #iblackwork #blackworkerssubmission #blackwork #linework #lineworktattoo

beautiful day surfing in the Atlantic with @jamestkirkpatrick riding this board I love!!! shaped by carl gooding @dawnpatrolsantacruz

hot off the press! first round of calendars printing in flint michigan!
#2017mooncalendar #amarahollowbones #darkartists soon they will be on etsy...

tableing with my favourite fungi @jamestkirkpatrick at the Halifax zine explosion come check us out ya fabulous little scumbags I love

@iam_theborg's lion from this afternoon, thanks nemo!! #amarahollowbones #amarahollowbonesart #linework #lineworktattoo #blxckink #iblackwork #liontattoo

I've be working on a lot of these lately... zippered pouches with appliqué recycled fabric and freehand embroidery. they're fun to make.... I'll get 'em up on etsy soon. for now look for them at From Mars and The Been Garden In london and some upcoming fairs at Ethos studio and handmade holiday market at the Bus Stop. #amarahollowbones

seeds are stars are ancestors are seeds are descendants #amarahollowbones

high magic revival solstice spell. calling in the savage hysteria the remembering the listening the moon the magic of our ancestors moving through us we are the earth moving as bodies we are the beginnings of rivers #amarahollowbones

yesterday in tkoronto with @swamp_sparrow. (and with linseed our tattoo-doula) a swamp sparrow, yellow plum, nettle, red clover #queermagic #skinmagic #amarahollowbones #sparrowtattoo #nettletattoo #wildplants #plumtattoo #redclovertattoo #linework #qttr #blackwork #blxckink #linetattoo

we call it hex mass because our high holy solstice spells are stronger and bigger when no one's looking... thinking the darkness is gone it's always here and we are always alive and thriving in the wild arms of darkness

fun with artist's statements and light. sewing, burning, drawing, typing

keep those cauldron fires burning

...and nancy the narwhal... #narwhaltattoo #amarahollowbones

working in a new set of pillows. I saw these colours together as I was falling asleep last night

panty stealers: im working on some textile projects that I'm exited about and I'm looking to collect old lace underwear to cut up and make into skies and mountains etc. the more worn out, ripped up the better-- I found this one white pair all ripped up and rotten hanging on a tree and it's the best. save your skivvies from the landfills! tell your friends! I'll send you a silkscreened patch or two from my etsy store(more if you send lots) send snail mail. let me know if you want payback for shipping or if just patches are cool. 11 Leslie st. london on n6h 2j1 Canada or Hc 11 box 706 Somes bar, ca 95568. thanx for supporting the cause.

red tailed hawk, thistles and poppies for ruby-- her first tattoo ever and did sooo well. I'm honoured to have done this for my last tattoo in london/antlered river watershed til spring

did some datura high witch tattoo magic on Tuesday. my last one in Santa Cruz this time around. thank you!!!! can't wait to finish it next time. #datura #daturatattoo #linework #blacktattoo #blackworkers #plantmagic #witchtattoo #queertattooer #queertattoo #qttr #darkartists

I had the best time tattooing this harpy! I was too zonked from staring at tiny lines to get the best picture but wanted to share anyways. I want to try and get a better picture... I love this one. thanks @harpogophytum this was so much fun #amarahollowbones #harpytattoo

oh how these trees sing . we are held here only by. . our tenuous roots. . . . stuck on the other side of a road slide yesterday. #klamathriver #amarahollowbones #londonartistsstudiotour #londonartiststudiotour

detail of datura tattoo

first 5 hours with Adam Cole you were amazing for such a tender spot. I loved tattooing this one--inspired by a piece of Adams artwork "wilting heart." i added the siskiyou wildflowers- dogwood, leopard lily, calypso orchid, bleeding heart, shooting star, columbine, penstemon, monkey flower. such a fun collaboration and an awesome bodywork trade- Adam works with a lot of different massage modalities. klamath/salmon river folks-- i highly recommend him <3

At the London Artist's Studio Tour, April 21-23 come to our studio at 11 Leslie st and bring a piece of clothing or bag... even a blanket or pillow case, be creative! and have it adorned while you watch with a piece of textile artwork sewn on-- fabric appliqué or silkscreen prints of original art.

rainy lace black diamond back patch

it's raining so much little deer!
#amarahollowbones #londonartistsstudiotour #linedrawing

honey bees from a new run of silkscreens. I'll be sewing these and others into bags I make soon I'm excited. #backpatch #amarahollowbones #bees #beedrawing #honeybee #londonartistsstudiotour

finished hanging pieces with thanks to my friend Sophia for the #londonartistsstudiotour which starts tonight! 7-9:30 tonight, 10-5 Saturday and 12-5 Sunday.

last day of the #londonartistsstudiotour it has been so wonderful to show with my father, Ian MacEachern and open up this little world on 11 Leslie st to share with so many good people coming through. my only regret is that I can't go see all the other rad artists in the tour.

go check out these mega babes of my life, these super inspiring awesome friends @morningstarrceramics today at call the office for the punk rock flea market #prfmlondon. then come to my studio afterwards to tell me how rad they are and get a custom high five just for you

the genocide, ecocide and domination of land and peoples has been going on for far longer than 150 years, oh "Canada." There is no pride. On turtle island and elsewhere, this violence is the legacy of generations and generations. ---We, indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes, First Nations, Métis and Inuit and citizens of Canada call on the House of Commons in parliament assembled to undertake a process which to formerly acknowledge the Great Lakes as living entities, thereby assigning personhood to each lake. --Let us act to restore the Great Lakes their voice-- support the formation of a multi interest Great Lakes tribunal led by indigenous peoples that will act as a voice of these new persons. dear friends, please sign. message me for the files to print off handouts where you live.
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-1030

#waterprotectors #greatlakes #nocanada #waterwalkers #protectthegreatlakes #canada #turtleisland #lakehuron #lakesuperior #lakemichigan #lakeontario #lakeerie

lookie! I tattooed a sunflower on my dear and special incredible inspiring and magical friend @feliceeegeee and I just had to show her face because she makes my soul sing! soooo much love and respect for this amazing human in my heart ❤️ Go find an event she is dj-ing/curating and dance it up and I bet you will be transformed #amarahollowbones #sunflowertattoo #botanicaltattoo #linework #friendship

some pictures of the whole piece. mugwort and night flowering jasmine on one shoulder, passionflower and damiana on the other, coming out of the antlers that were already there. #amarahollowbones #jasminetattoo #mugworttattoo #artemesia #botanicaltattoo #blackworkers #linework #blackwork #qttr #queerartist #jasmineflower

last tattoo in the Great Lakes before heading westward to the siskiyou mountains and the ocean where the sun sets. this was a real treat to tattoo this garter snake, cosmos, oak and birch today on the super stellar @rainbowisland. thank you!!!

thinking of these mountain grammas. these really big little rock people humming the heartbeat #amarahollowbones #linedrawing #darkartists #ancestors

healed pic of one from Nashville this spring. black spruce and fireweed, moon and rain. this tattoo was a joy to do... somehow the pictures from that trip got lost in the shuffle. #fireweed #blackspruce #blackwork #btattooing #qttr #queertattoo #amarahollowbones #alaskatattoo #botanicaltattoo #botanicaldrawing #linework

hope to see a bunch of you folks who dwell in the antlered river watersheds at the night market @londonritual on Saturday July 22nd 7-11pm. I will be there with a whole bunch of other skilled local artists and crafters. plus I hear there will be music. it's like an art-shopping party. click the tags on this photo to see who else will be there!

I got to tattoo these geese in the rain on a person whose strength and humility I admire SO much but damn are they a whiny-ass wiggling cry baby as I'm tattooing their armpit while people are talking way too loudly. geez. ... thanks @flycatcherdiy for being such a hilarious champ. most laughs and screams of any tattoo. ❤️❤️❤️. #amarahollowbones #blackworkers #linework #blackwork #qttr #queertattooartist #queertattoo #blacktattoo #goosetattoo #geese #flyinggeese #linedrawing #finelinetattoo

I'm working as hard as the beavers (well... probably not actually) to get this years moon calendar finished!... gathering food and walking goats and playing around in the woods and waters has taken priority this summer-fall, taking me to places where meticulous cutting and pasting hasn't been very easy... so it's a little late. also the reason why I have been more lax on tattooing, sorry to be a flake. sort of took an accidental and much needed long "vacation" back into some real living and winter food stocking adventures but it should be printed super soon, look out! xoxo. #amarahollowbones #beaver #beavers #working #mooncalendar #2018mooncalendar #ballpointpen #beaverdrawing

I am so so so happy I got to tattoo this fawn on @_samurphy_ today. I had such a nice time and am so grateful to be asked to tattoo this picture on this awesome person. thank you!!!! it's hard to take pictures of wrap around thigh pieces and do it justice... some better pictures will come soon.

nettle tattoo in the nettle patch with @ether_howls. inspired by mimi kamps botanical drawing. what a sweet day! #stingingnettle #botanicaltattoo #nettletattoo #stingingnettletattoo #urtica #planttattoo #botanicaldrawing #amarahollowbones #medicinalplants #wildfoodtattoo #finelinetattoo #linework #linetattoo #blacktattoo

standing in the garden showing off today's protector yarrow tattoo! it's such a joy connecting so intimately with plants and their meaning for people, relating in this way with the plants that mean so much to us. thanks Jordan! endless thanks to yarrow in my life, the strength and protection she brings us. #amarahollowbones #yarrowtattoo #achilleamillefolium #yarrow #botanicaltattoo #yarrowbotanicaldrawing #blacktattoo #linework #planttattoo #plantmedicine

it's such a joy working with @adamdcole88 --all the meaning and magic that arises... wow! here is a piece I drew up in the summer that ended up turning into a total healing portal 💜 thank youuuuuu. ............... ..................................... ................................... #amarahollowbones #qttr #lineworktattoo

stages of a monarch butterfly emerging from the cocoon. tattoo for ren- so happy she brought this idea for a tattoo! loved working on this one so much. #amarahollowbones #butterflytattoo #butterflytransition #butterflytransformation #monarchbutterfly #monarchbutterflytattoo #qttr #linework #linetattoo #blacktattoo #blackwork #blxckink #linedrawing #butterflydrawing

so lucky for the top notch hilarious reunion and visiting AND a wild bouquet of medicine for this fabulous long-time friend @zekatesogreat ! jasmine, rose, cedar, bay, sagebrush,lavender. ❤️❤️❤️. thanksssss. #amarahollowbones #botanicaltattoo #botanicaldrawing #bouquettattoo #herbaltattoo #planttattoo #plantmedicine #queertattoo #lineworktattoo

i loved every moment of this caribou black spruce tattoo, sharing in the ritual and intention of it, reconnecting with my dear friend @commoneiderkingeider thank you thank you for your trust in this magic #amarahollowbones #cariboutattoo #blackspruce #treetattoo #linework #blackwork #magicaltattoo #finelinetattoo #qttr #queertattooartist #tattoowitch

all set up for the makers market at the bus stop @breadandrosesbooks 870 Dundas st with a bunch of other great artists. i am stoked that i was invited last minute to bend here on my surprise home visit in london. while you're out check out @kirrakonstantinovna @christosangel at ethos studio on Lorne ave for the factory artists open studio weekend... a bunch of studios open through the whole building. i'll be checking it out after i'm done here. xoxoxo

i was flipping through sketchbooks and found this picture i drew of rebecca and solas just after he was born. i am missing her so much. dearest friend, well tender, tidewalker, wild witch of my heart, you're all through the land and waters. i love you so much.

mountain range for harris + a really sweet hangout with such special people and the first of the many tattoos about to come from my great lakes return... . . . #amarahollowbones #mountaintattoo #mountainstattoo #finelinetattoo #linetattoo #linework #qttr #queertattooartist

little snail cover up for robin yesterday in tkaronto! #amarahollowbones #snailtattoo #coveruptattoo #snails #lineworktattoo #qttr

today with becky! dandelions and bees chest piece. a fun reminder of spring on such a wintery day. #amarahollowbones #beestattoo #beetattoo #honeybeetattoo #dandelions #dandeliontattoo #botanicaltattoo #botanicaldrawing #savethebees #bumblebeetattoo #lineworktattoo #blacktattoo #blackwork #finelinetattoo

january-march i'll be tattooing (and adventuring) in the south! yessss the rumours are true i followed a dream babe down to the south and am here for the "winter". i will be in various places in florida, georgia, west virginia, north carolina, new orleans. exact locations tba... lets connect about your dreamy and wild tattoos that we can bring into the world on your skin! #amarahollowbones

cardinal for @steveruthe today. cardinals are one of my most favourite birds, loved getting to draw and tattoo this one ❤️. #amarahollowbones #cardinaltattoo #birdtattoo #cardinaldrawing #lineworktattoo #finelinetattoo #linework #blackworktattoo #qttr

full moon, opposes the sun, takes its longest path in the night sky close to solstice. shows us the path of the summer sun. may our stories and dreams and sorrow and reflections show us the paths we will take through the growing year
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i'm in the lands of the black vultures
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visioning moon. we may still be in the depths of winter and yet this moon cycle moves us through imbolc... where ice meets fire. i can feel such a difference already/// the stories and memories and dreams and aches are beginning to form into visions and plans and ideas, more effortlessly turning into intentions than before. things feel just a little lighter. the new moon is growing again... look for her in the western sky falling just after the setting sun.
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harpo's copper head snakes from our weekend artist residence gay cay tattoo party

i'm excited to be all set up and have just finished sewing this new round of back patches- and got them up on etsy!

here is the piece i just finished for a power trade with the super talented jeweller @feralina_ , based on the cuillins mountain range on the isle of skye. it was a fun and beautiful challenge working on doing a representation of a specific place, trying to get the feel right. and it was a joy to be asked to work with this place specifically- an area i have not yet visited but feel in my bones and blood and see these places in my dreams. so so much of my ancestry is from this area.
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i’m out of the hospital and back in my sweet bay area bee hive where i get to stay and recover for the next little while. i stood clearly and strongly in myself on my way in, and out. and I was SO HELD. yes there were a couple very ridiculous, inappropriate and violating experiences in this stay, they were relatively minor. a nurse with a bad attitude (that’s being generous) but i was only around her for 5 minutes and i reacted appropriately to them by raging, screaming, yelling and crying in my outrage and telling absolutely everyone about how i was mistreated. then i was saved by gay nurses who listened to me rage and held me as i came back into peace, and my dear friend sophie came in to join me in my room.

i am amazed by the surgeons. they were all such great people, i felt so honoured by them. and i legit heart bonded with one of them. such an angel. she told me about what she saw inside my body with such reverence. she told me in detail about the beauty of my blood vessels, the strength of my muscles, the elasticity and resilience of my skin, the health of my surrounding tissues, that my lymph nodes looked good from what she could see. she described to me the shape of my tumour. the way it stood out in contrast to my healthy tissues. that it was so angry and it’s so good it’s out. she let me ask and ask, and she listened to me with genuine care and interest about my medicines and my magic and about who i am.

with what she shared with me, and what sophie shared with me about what my support crew went through when i was in surgery helped me stitch myself back in to the missing time of being under anesthesia. and helped me feel so loved and honoured, to hear about the tears and the worry and the ways the people i love held each other and held me was so grounding. once i was able to walk in the evening, sophie and our favourite nurse who we were a little overly smitten with, took us to a window to look out at the full moon over the bay.

i’m soooo tender right now. in all the ways. i’m about to get bathed by my sweet friends. there is so much more i want to share, but this is what i have for now. i love reading everyone’s messages and comments and emails so much. i looked through a lot of comments from different posts on my drive in and feeling your love and prayers and having my strength and magic reflected back to me from all of you meant so much, and continues to.

tomorrow i get to unwrap the bandages and see my transformed chest! and we are told that next friday we should receive the pathology reports about what they found within my tissues and lymph nodes.

thank you everyone for your care and love

-amara

okay NOW the new books are finally all listed up on etsy.
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thank youuuu dear friend @waamaandtheliontruth for sending me this healed picture from this magic work we created in the fall. such a joy!
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i had the great honour of tattooing this bear skull, owl feathers and cotton bolls yesterday on @kathrynevelyn, all drawn from these things she has found and holds dear. (i hate to call them "things" but can't find a better word). it was so beautiful to work on this with you, thank you so much for your trust.
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i'll be back with the antlered river of my heart next weekend for the punk rock flea market in london, ontario at call the office. april 22nd. come check it out this event is so awesome and there are going to be a bunch of rad vendors, i'm excited to be a part of this!. @punkrockfleamarketlondon

thank youuuuuu @delicious.bizarre for this lovely tattoo experience the other day. i love this idea they came up with- leaf skeleton landscapes... such a compliment with my work. one of my favourite parts about tattooing is collaborating with and relating in an intimate and creative way with rad people to bring beautiful ideas into being. keep it comin' y'all!
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from last night with @annabethlegge , this delicate little side - boob yampa flower, part of a whole picture with a flying lark on her back. i love this idea and how it turned out. thank you so much for your trust!
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i had the pleasure to tattoo this dark mountain star grandma in the moon last night! so thankful to @du13ious for choosing one of these star grandmas that are so dear to my heart. and for rocking it during the tattoo!
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the fierce and loving heart of this dream babe @shaunabannana is unreal y'all and i got to do the most beautiful tattoo magic with her !!!! forever thankful for our whole time together 🖤
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gettin' stuff ready for the punk rock flea market TOMORROW april 22 11-5 @punkrockfleamarketlondon at call the office @calltheoffice in london, ontario. if you're here come check it out and say hi -- i just got back last night from west virginia and this is going to be super fun.
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punk rock flea market yesterday went so well! especially because of help from my fabulous assistant @flycatcherdiy who really upped this tables hair and fashion game and general good vibes plus being way better at talking about my work than i am, and goin on snack missions. 🖤 @punkrockfleamarketlondon #prfmldn

this tattoo! on @blackwillowstudio --ghost pipe and lichens and mushrooms and moss, life out of death... with a throwback to my drawing style of times past. love tattooing you, sam! and all the beautiful dark earthy rot you are into.
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water moccasin above the knee from my time in west virginia 🖤 such a cool idea for where to put a coiled up snake! i love front thigh tattoos! (and back thigh tattoos...)
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thank you so so so much @leftysmudges for trusting me in this collaboration. together we brought into being this lilac -star - crone - guardian who carries the face and scribbles that allyson drew. so thankful to have been asked to help bring this powerful crone into being.
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look at that happy face!! shucks who woulda known that tattooing this barn owl flying out of @sociallubricator 's neck was gonna make my day?! i really reaaallllyy loved tattooing this magical owl today!
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new starlight moon loon back patch and other new drawings have now made it into the realms of silkscreened patches. i'm so excited. they'll be up in my etsy shop real soon. #scumbagfashionweek
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the summer triangle; cygnus, lyra and aquila hiding amongst alder, pearly everlasting and ragwort. thank you so much @karagrace__ for trusting me with this and making your way here!
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jess's rabbit with clover, wild rose and yarrow in the full moon
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magical snake crawling up hannah's spine for my last tattoo in the antler river watershed and great lakes region until my return in late fall (or maybe summer...?) what a great and fun little send off. see you all out there in the mountains and sunset ocean lands ❤️
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a mama bear face hiding in the inner arm with a wreath of violet, lily of the valley and sweet pea for kate
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"Live wild!" --deer in the starlight forest standing amongst the trees beneath the cycling moon...
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i have a whole bunch of new patches printed that i'm really excited about, plus reprints of some of my most favourite. they're up in my etsy shop now! xo #highmagic #scumbagcouture
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i had the great pleasure to hang out with and tattoo wild rose, mugwort, and lemon balm, these special plants for @sego.strega. such a fun time connecting with this magical person, and i gotta say, as a virgo sun i really appreciate tattooing another virgo. total dream.
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today's buffalo skull surrounded by miners lettuce, blackberry and stinging nettle for kari. it was such an honour to be chosen to hold space for this very special tattoo. ❤️
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a sea goat for the brilliant and talented capricorn @timebitch_irl. part of my unofficial "apparently i'm only tattooing really fucking awesome earth sign people this week" working vacation tour.
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stinkhorn mushroom, bamboo and coyote willow for @justin_finite. such a fun and challenging tattoo- figuring out that strange and beautiful stinkhorn! super happy with how it turned out. thanks pal.
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this is just an excuse to brag about how much fun i had with @harpogophytum at the ocean even though we didn't actually do this tattoo this weekend but i only have inappropriate pictures so i can't show them off. so here is this tattoo that i've been meaning to post for a while-- i had the great honour to put the art of @timebitch_irl onto harpo and revel in the celestial vibes of their best-friendship, where the goddess splanx the fern was brought into flesh and it was a magical thing.
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a spell for moving with strength and grace into the unknown. thank you tons, dear s. for sharing your wild magic with me <3
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happy new tattoo and opening day of salmon river apothecary in fort jones! my darling jamie @salmonriverapothecary is rocking it!!! go check out her store on hwy 3 in the same building as 3 little birds cafe (also really nice place to eat). featuring many artists and herbalists from the klamath river and more to come, including me, brian tripp, the lovely pam ward, laurie bell, chris adams' preserves, rachel's ceramics...

three bands for the ancestors; challah, interlocking hands, havdallah candle. this was a beautiful and meaningful concept i'm honoured i got to be a part of. i also got to meet one of the people who work at @narrowbridgecandles -- beeswax jewish ritual candles that are NOT made in Israel; these beautiful candles are made in california. check them out ❤️
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three bands for the ancestors; challah, interlocking hands, havdallah candle. this was a beautiful and meaningful concept i'm honoured i got to be a part of. i also got to meet one of the people who work at @narrowbridgecandles -- beeswax jewish ritual candles that are NOT made in Israel; these beautiful candles are made in california in support of palestine, and u.s. based struggles for racial justice and indigenous sovereignty. check them out ❤️
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thank you so much to my new friend @ladyursus for trusting me with bringing into being this ancestral piece of blue agave and lesser long nosed bats. i had a lot of fun doing this piece and meeting this rad person- excited for more! check out the magical brooms they weave or look for a broom-making workshop near you ❤️
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a flower filled jelly fish to restart the pre-existing mechanical heart of my pal @jamesbrengle. just learned that middle part in a jelly fish is the oral arms, also where the stingers are, and way up in the middle of that is the mouth. so this is a jelly fish with floral arms...💙
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happiest of birthdays yesterday to my sweet friend the incredibly creative multi talented tattoo artist and puppeteer etc @virginiamarting ! check out her work and visit her tattoo studio in vancouver, wa. i got to tattoo her a big sky with sun and moon a few days ago and just getting to post now 💗
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it was so wonderful to tattoo this magic and catch up with this friend @sweetielynnepiper in portland last week. words cannot express how much i love this trust and intimacy and all that arises when bringing about such deep meaningful works of magic to be carried on skin ❤️❤️❤️
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oh how i loved getting to know the spirit of this kitchen witch summoned to be tattooed for @velvet_hammer666 such a fun time! thankxxx
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next day photos from kriquet's bright star and dark star tattoo inspired by chinese medicine principles. i really loved bringing all the elements together in this freehand landscape and the depth and joy of connecting while working on piece. thank you so much!
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thank you @themoonchilde for sharing with me your heart and magic and this experience we had together of tattooing these antlers with holly, oxalis, blackberry, mugwort and sword fern ❤️
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it was my birthday yesterday! 9/11. these two darlings really upped the game on my family's tradition of taking pictures of us kids each year the exact time we are born. that's 7pm est. which makes me a virgo with taurus moon and pisces rising thank you very much. thanks to these pals for being such gems and blessing me with your loving presence and presents of fox fur, cheese cake, small cast iron, mayonnaise, and a wood-stove heatable hair curler for all our backwoods salon needs!!! @harpogophytum and thanks to all my dear friends farther away who i love SO very much and who inspire me and keep me good, who make my world go round just knowing you're out there even if we aren't together all the time. ❤️❤️❤️. @natmoynagh @smorningstarr @flycatcherdiy @jamestkirkpatrick @voixdelaforet @crimsonsagenursery @onna.joe @felicegdotcom @mooncycle13 @sophieamacklin @tenderwildeyes @virginiamarting @magpiewild @lindseycherrett @gunsandrosa @aaron_lozynsky @ladyursus @catalystcommunityherbals @cobracadabrix @spiraleena and more mega pals that i forgot to name or don't have internet or i just can't seem to remember your insta handles at this very crucial moment.

a tall redwood tree for @dally.bear
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a protective and nerve and soul-soothing wreath of skullcap, lemon balm, pedicularis densiflora, hawthorne, chamomile and anemone opening to what is beneath the skin for my friend @harborherbalist . i'm really honoured i got to do this meaningful piece for such a special person and for our much-too-brief reunion a few weeks ago. ❤️
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a cimaruta - a magical italian protection charm; traditionally made in the shape of a branch of rue, for my friend @sawyer_bird last month. i love bringing intention and magic into tattooing and it is a huge honour and so inspiring/encouraging for me to work with so many people of different lineages and learn and share about their ancestral stories and magic of place. thanks pal!! ❤️
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We are creatures of the earth. However in touch we have become, or still are, or however disconnected we may be from our ancestral traditions, magic, and places there is a deep remembering in each of us that is far older than any 'knowledge.' We carry the songs of the earth and our ancestors in our bones. We are in a mutually dependent relationship with the earth and if we are willing to listen, to ask and to welcome the many responses then we will hear our bones rumbling with the beat of the earth, our blood flowing with the pulse of the rivers and our breath harmonizing with the wind. May we speak in a language that is growing, alive and changing, a language of place. May we continue to discover and remember from where we've come, and listen to the whispers of our ancestors within us, the stories of our elders, the dreams of our descendants and the call of our wild beating hearts in the moonlight. .
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both the wall sizes and pocket sizes of this years moon calendar are now officially printed and listed up in my etsy shop- link in bio. 🖤. amarahollowbones.etsy.com
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i'm so thrilled to announce next years moon calendar is all put together and ready to be printed!
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hey all! to everyone in the great lakes/southern ontario region: i am sharing this on behalf of my dear friend sophia who is leading this 13 month priestess training. she is a queer, radical elder witch who brings so much skill, wisdom, beauty and powerful magic to this work. i couldn't recommend this enough. work within a group of other priestesses on this journey of magic and empowerment 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑 this class is based out of "london" by the forks of deshkan ziibiing though is suitable for folks up to a few hours away - you meet once a month in person.

a cauldron boiling over with fire and stars. such a perfect way to be together with the new moon//lunar samhain for an incredibly special witch @will.oh.the.wisp ... this is the beginnings of a much larger and very exciting piece-- i cannot wait for the rest!!! 🖤🖤🖤
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these changing autumn days i have been so finding so much solace and grounding in the quiet, small and beautiful fabric disaster of my sewing room. here are some fabric applique back patches and a picture of work-in-progress bags and pouches i am very excited about 🖤 ...patches are listed in my etsy shop...
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light and dark//lily-trillium-star flowers tonight with @rubynadler in honour of her father; our new take on a tattoo he had. what a wonderful night! 🖤
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a forest altar surrounded by ferns to commemorate "mich fest." plus the second picture showing off the side of this tattoo with a little peek at the healed barn owl on their neck from last spring. always such a fun time tattooing @sociallubricator and i can't wait for the next one!!
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pine tree with exposed roots, down the spine. (picture doesn't show the centering so well-- was fighting with glare and shadow) based on a drawing @violet.haase had found, and restyled for her very first tattoo!!! thanks so much for picking me!
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just finished a whole lot of new textile work that i'm really excited about. a lot of pillows, hand bound books, wall pieces... more... a lot - including these pillows and their complimentary pairs will be up on display and for sale at "CRAFTED" at @tapcreativityon november 27-dec 20. (203 dundas st. london, ontario) it's a group show and sale of other craft-based artists. opening reception is 6-8 nov. 27th i'm excited to see what all the other artists are showing and i would love to have friends come out!
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tonight is the opening reception at TAP Centre for Creativity from 6-8. this piece of mine along with many others will be exhibited and for sale at the 5th annual CRAFTED exhibition. i'm excited to be a part of this.
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my friends are all so cute i almost can't stand it. those faces!!! @lovendermenace @lindseycherrett @flycatcherdiy @amy.leigh.art plus heather. thanks for being my pals ❤️
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#amarahollowbones #fiberartist #fiberarts #queermagic @ TAP Centre for Creativity

pillows; the rain and snow and stars of the many seasons. stitching landscapes... forests... skies... feeding dreams. i began making these pillows for myself, i have four on my bed; to surround myself with an abstracted layered beauty; for when i need to bury my heart and face into these stitched together worlds that really are made as a healing process, to live in the silence of this process, getting lost in how he fabrics come together in the emerging layers when i'm making them... then to embrace and be embraced by art.
here is one, and six holding it down together. DM if you are called to having one made for you, or go visit TAP Centre for Creativity to find these ones until december 20.
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we finished her! 🖤🖤🖤 i am so happy. the sky and dress details are new, everything else is 8 months healed. thank you so much @lovebiteceramics for your courage and spirit. such a joy to bring this into being with you... so excited for our collaborations in many mediums...
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i'm so very excited for the flash- tattoo fundraiser we are doing tomorrow at The Tower collective in Hamilton, ON. here's a few of the many flash sheets i've made especially for this event! can't wait! read below for info and if you want to support from afar:
“Early Friday morning, Hamilton police raided a home associated with some of those involved with organizing The Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair. The door was kicked in, a flash grenade was thrown into the house, and a full swat team entered. With their assault rifles drawn, the swat team proceeded to pull everyone out of bed some of whom were naked, and with one exception, put everyone in handcuffs. Three people were detained and one person arrested.”

Since the above statement was released in the spring, an additional seven people are facing a range of allegations in relation to anti-gentrification actions on Locke Street in an obvious attempt to quash longstanding dissent and resistance in the area.

All proceeds from this day will be split 50/50 between Amara and legal fees for the 8 individuals facing charges.

For more info & updates on arrestees: https://hamiltonanarchistsupport.noblogs.org/

If you want to make an additional donation for defendants, you can donate here: https://fundraising.the-tower.ca/ or email thetowercalendar@gmail.com to arrange an e-transfer.
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here are a few teeny little flash pieces from this weekend's fundraiser at The Tower. what an amazing and well put-together event full of such special people. folks travelled from hours away and we filled up within minutes of opening and sadly not everyone even got a chance to be tattooed. what a stand up show of community support!! i am so touched by all the incredible folks i met / and many who i didn't even get the chance to meet but could feel their rad attitudes all the same. i'm excited to come back... hopefully we'll do another one of these in the spring-- with more artists too!❤️❤️❤️ in the meantime, next weekend there is another fundraiser /auction at The Tower ( see previous post for what it's all about and ways to support )
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this years 2019 moon calendar marks the 7th year in a row i have been sharing these calendars. a moon calendar that shifts our awareness away from the gregorian calendar and calls us to pay attention to the moon cycles and calls us into relation. each page begins with the new moon, and while the dates are present and arranged in typical calendar format (example: new moon, tuesday july 2nd) there is focus on the moon as the beginning each cycle/month because really, these are the true cycles the the calendar was based on but got skewed and simplified. i actually made the first calendar in 2008 but never shared it... while living on land and really deepening and forming my own connections and understandings of myself in relation to place, and the moon. i needed to form my own calendar based in place-- to track the seasonal patterns in relation to each other, the emerging of leaves, the blooming of flowers, the ripening of berries, the arrival of migratory birds, animal behaviours, weather patterns, my own cycles and moods, community dynamics. it means a lot to me to now share this every year, to bring these gathered pieces of my earth magic together in a way that i hope will inspire and help guide more and more of us back to ourselves into a precious and self guided relationship with earth and place. and to reconnect or deepen connection with our bodies and the moon.
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if you would like to purchase one of these they are available directly from me with paypal, venmo, or e-transfer, or from my etsy shop(which shares more info!) link in bio. they are also available in bulk order/whole sale or for consignment.
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price (includes shipping) wall size: 16$USD in usa/17$CDN for canada/18USD international
.pocket size- 8$USD in usa/9$CDN in canada/10$USD international.
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this years 2019 moon calendar marks the 7th year in a row i have been sharing these calendars. a moon calendar that shifts our awareness away from the gregorian calendar and calls us to pay attention to the moon cycles and calls us into relation. each page begins with the new moon, and while the dates are present and arranged in typical calendar format (example: new moon, tuesday july 2nd) there is focus on the moon as the beginning each cycle/month because really, these are the true cycles the the calendar was based on but got skewed and simplified. i actually made the first calendar in 2008 but never shared it... while living on land and really deepening and forming my own connections and understandings of myself in relation to place, and the moon. i needed to form my own calendar based in place-- to track the seasonal patterns in relation to each other, the emerging of leaves, the blooming of flowers, the ripening of berries, the arrival of migratory birds, animal behaviours, weather patterns, my own cycles and moods, community dynamics. it means a lot to me to now share this every year, to bring these gathered pieces of my earth magic together in a way that i hope will inspire and help guide more and more of us back to ourselves into a precious and self guided relationship with earth and place. and to reconnect or deepen connection with our bodies and the moon. .
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if you would like to purchase one of these they are available directly from me with paypal, venmo, or e-transfer, or from my etsy shop, link in bio. they are also available in bulk order/whole sale or for consignment. .
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price (includes shipping) wall size: 16$USD in usa/17$CDN for canada/18USD international .pocket size- 8$USD in usa/9$CDN in canada/10$USD international.
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a wrap around snake eating its own tail .... "everything is food" for @swamp.daughter plus we emboldened some lines of these wave crests on this pre-existing traditionally hand-poked tattoo not done by me-- which she designed! and i love!
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this is how we do a sagittarius birthday okay!! @flycatcherdiy @lindseycherrett

here’s a little dandelion busting up the ground with that tenacious root!
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new moon, new year,new calendar... today is the darkest moon, who follows so closely along the suns path to partially eclipse the suns light (visible in east asia) before passing and moving further and further from the suns path each day until they are opposites- and the light from the sun shines across space to show us what we call the full moon. i have been preparing for this moon, gathering up the stories and the pieces that it’s time to let go of, while also brewing up so much within myself in the inspiring solstice times. this waning moon i have sat with a lot of painful things that i’m ready to let go of, burn away, bury, grieve, and transform... what i’m gently leaving in the quiet darkness and step away from. life is an ever turning spell we cast ourselves into. in this darkness, the first dark moon of the solar year, as the light of a new cycle has just begun to glimmer in growth, i recognize the power in these moments to shed skins, cast off what i’m leaving behind, to see it all in its beauty and ugliness, to see where i’ve come from and find i can be nurtured or nourished in some way by all of it. even if it is just knowing i will never go through some of that shit ever again, i made it out and will never go back. even if i don’t always trust that i’ll heal and get stronger and sometimes feel it so intensely as a burden the ways i’ve been hurt or the parts of me i’ve lost, i will remember we cycle, we grow, we heal. our dreams and our spells are the most powerful. our magic may go into hiding but will never be taken away. we will have our songs, our stories, our prayers, our grief, our love, our lives, our resilience. i live my life as an evolving spell, an ever-growing act of magic.
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in the darkest days of winter, longest nights and fullest moon, this ancestor of the stars came into the flesh to walk with @will.oh.the.wisp . i am so so ever grateful to have the chance in this life to share moments with people like this dear one- to share an old and kindred magic and language is an incredible life line in this world. to draw something that is truly a spirit coming through and have someone unquestionably called to walk with this magic - and reflect back to me pieces of what i felt while this being first came through... oh my gosh it is such a gift, so affirming and strengthening. thank you from the heartbeats of my spirit. .
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#amarahollowbones #contemporarytattooing #contemporarytattoo #linework #tattoowitch #witchtattoo #lineworktattoo #lineworktattoos #blxckink #blackwork #blackworktattoo #fmlttr #qttr #witchesofinstagram #witchythings #queerwitch #queermagic #apocalypticwitchcraft #tattoomagic #dotworktattoo #bugpin #whipshaded #finelinetattoo #iblackwork #blackworkerssubmission #blacktattoo #figurativeart #figurativetattoo #pagansofinstagram #pagantattoo #traumahealing #ancestralhealing #ancestralmedicine #darkmother #witch #witchcraft @ London, Ontario

in the darkest days of winter, longest nights and fullest moon, this ancestor of the stars came into the flesh to walk with @will.oh.the.wisp . i am so so ever grateful to have the chance in this life to share moments with people like this dear one- to share an old and kindred magic and language is an incredible life line in this world. to draw something that is truly a spirit coming through and have someone unquestionably called to walk with this magic - and reflect back to me pieces of what i felt while this being first came through... oh my gosh it is such a gift, so affirming and strengthening. thank you from the heartbeats of my spirit.
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thanks to a little nudge from someone out there here is a photo of all the embroidered/appliqué patches i have made over the last while: a few are listed, more will be soon... send me a message if you’re interested in one of these before i list them! books and pouches and bags to come soon... and thanks courtney for gettin’ me going with sharing them.
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JUST LOOK what @smorningstarr made me!!!!! the most magical coziest mooz mittens. just for me?!?!!!! made by this deer whacko of my heart! maker of mittens, maker of cows. ❤️❤️❤️ i am a freakin blessed kitten baby boo i tell you. i am sooooooooo happy and lucky and grateful to be part of such heart-filling-make-my-spirit-dance (in such unique ways) friendships with these two.

my darling, light of my life, kills me with love, brilliant true love bestest friend Seda @voixdelaforet has gathered up all his deep wisdom and skill and years of dedication to the earth, to the dark mother, to truly healing the deepest wounds and bundled it all up into his healing practice “tide song healing arts” and i am so fucking thrilled and proud of him, and excited for every being he will touch. and i drew his hands holding starlight flowing through stone into water and that is exactly what he does and it’s life changing. tidesonghealingarts.com 💙
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a series of hand bound books. spells. dreams. rants. smut. lists. stories. sketches.
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made with recycled textiles, using free motion embroidery and appliqué, bound with recycled paper. $50 usd
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remembering what is hidden dormant beneath the snow and ice... here is a sweet little side-boob purple aster tattooed earlier this winter, to balance a stalk of goldenrod on the other side. i loved doing these sweet little subtle colour tattoos 💜
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these are canvas zipper-pouches... wallet/clutch/pencil case/tarot card bag/medicine holder/makeup bag/utility pouch... made with found and upcycled materials using freemotion embroidery. i started making these when i was given a big bag of old zippers @salmonriverapothecary found in an old trailer, and i had leftover canvas from sewing a wall-tent. i keep on as my wallet, two for tinctures, one for rune stones, another for tarot cards, and another for special little things i might need to carry.
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if you want one, they are listed for sale in my shop (link in bio)or to get one directly from me, send me a dm. 38usd /45cdn plus shipping.
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tattooing this portal to a cape breton seascape yesterday was an absolute dream! it came together from far too many magical synchronicities to name. i’m so grateful for the chance to connect with this incredibly special person and the experience of tattooing a landscape so dear to my heart and of my bones— the lands where my father was born. i continue to feel so honoured to bring such meaning to life into someone’s skin... and i feel so lucky for the places i get to be taken while connecting so intimately with anothers magic; being welcomed to be touched and affected by these special worlds of symbols and meaning. so much thanks to paige— and to everyone i’ve tattooed— for the trust in going there together.
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alligator — dalligator — alligaytor for the incredible @dally.bear ! what a time! #fuckenflorida
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tote bags, yo! for some reason i don’t make them too often but i do love to make them, this flat black surface to work with. i just listed a few in my shop. 🖤
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starry mountains and crescent moon pillow cover in brown, golds, blues, deep purples... custom made for @astarrbat’s partner’s birthday. ugh. i LOVED getting lost in these colours. thanks so much aidan 🌙 .
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i’m so super excited to announce i will be doing a guest spot at Heart of Gold Body Arts in hendersonville, north carolina, may 14-20. i am now taking names for appointments! please DM or email hollowbones@riseup.net to send me your ideas! i can’t wait to meet all of you, and kerry burke, and @the_tinyfire and all the other rad artists there.
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i especially would love to tattoo this barn owl— swipe to see original drawing on white background. holler if it’s for you! (could also be available for when i’m london, ontario this april and july)
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i tattooed this most fabulous freakin witch’s head! crystal cobra! in our most epic and too short reunion.:.swan-gooses with linked crescent moons; the beginnings of a snaking, rooting, blooming portal. til next time dear one, @cobracadabrix xoxoxo .
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tattooed crystals head, revelled in her smoothie making magic, picked citrus, played with giant alligator skull, patched her tire and got that witch on tha road!