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SETTINGS & FINDINGS EPISODE N. 1 WITH ARTIST SARABETH POST

I am excited to start this series with SaraBeth Post. I connected with SaraBeth through social media when a friend posted a ring that she had purchased from them. Through a series of clicks and follows we have built a correspondence between us. I asked SaraBeth to highlight the work she has been doing to raise social consciousness and economy towards the support of Black individuals and organizations in the U.S. You will notice in this series that I sometimes have asked makers and collaborators and groups to address a specific project. The intent is to provide specific focus but also to encourage you to follow,
look and support by following the links provided.

For me SaraBeths work discussed here is a physical reminder of the people she is supporting. As necklaces they are a presence around the neck that is felt when first put on yet they are extremely lite allowing us to possibly forget they are there even though we have them around our necks. Glass as a material in this situation is stable and very wearable however it also highlights the need to remain conscious as we navigate our days to prevent harshly running into something to cause it to break. For me this is a beautiful metaphor of supporting each other, the ability for autonomy and the need to be aware of our bodies
as we exist in relationship to someone else.

How do we use jewelry to remind us of larger ideas?
How do we exist and also prevent the shattering of another?
How do we move and allow space for the movement of a body that is not our own?

-ml

SaraBeth Post’s Settings and Findings:

The impact of 2020’s attention on the not-new horrific treatment to Black bodies, Black persons, Black spirit, and absolute injustice propelled me to use glass jewelry as a means to raise money and awareness for David McAtee, Jacob Blake, Quawan Charles, and organizations supporting Black LGBTQ. These men and too too many more have died by the hands of brutal police enforcement. The first call to my followers on instagram was an exchange, their monetary donation for a handblown glass necklace secured by knots on a rubber cord.
As a response to the visible fundraising I have facilitated during the pandemic, in necessity to raise awareness of the lack of Black acceptance in America, the beautiful matt lambert has invited me to set a mood ushering others to their seat at the table through my wearable work.

My finding lies here; a cord of empathy, a notion to help, the will to harness transparency.

As an artist who works with craft and a healer who works with energy, I seek to combine my abilities to create objects that give power to the person it adorns in a spiritual way. The setting is shared space between the physical and etheric/subtle body. Glass is an insulator. I view these worn elements as protective in two ways, first insulating the energy of the wearer and second a force field that disables penetrative external forces of energy. The necklaces exist in the world as a physical interpretation of our etheric bond to the universal life force. Each person that has one of my handblown glass necklaces, acquired through a monetary donation for the family of the Black lives that were unjustly murdered, has in their power a wearable symbol signifying themselves as an active spirit in the scientific and spiritual vibration of universal consciousness.

-SaraBeth Post
Website - sarabethpost.net
Instagram - @ultralit.sb
Venmo - @sarabethpost

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SETTINGS & FINDINGS EPISODE N. 1 WITH ARTIST SARABETH POST