Our Story
location : Sahara Desert, Mauritania
visited : December 2019
I grew up with dirty hands and feet, always digging for rocks, playing with paint, or building sand castles on the beach.
I still have my childhood rock collection in an old canister in my closet. At nine years old, I created the New Craft Club, where I promised to make family members one craft each month, if they agreed to donate at least $1 for supplies. I was always collecting, always creating.
That creativity took me to Chicago where I earned an Art + Design degree from Columbia College. A few years later, I launched a graphic design + branding studio in Plymouth, Michigan.
For eight years, I designed for start-ups, mom-and-pop shops, and international brands. Eventually realizing that I needed to do something more tactile – more artistic. Something that allowed me to use my hands and get messy. I wanted less screens and more paint, charcoal, and clay. I blended my passions for art, photography, travel, writing, and ceramics into the idea for Narradora.
For years I’ve traveled the world, searching for bizarre and beautiful places, but mostly absorbing the sights and colors, eating the local fare, living in each of those places. Every time a trip ends and I return home, I spend the next few days recreating recipes, hanging artwork purchased from the markets, and trying my best to incorporate those memories and experiences into my everyday life.
I try to find ways to bring home small pieces from my favorite places. Sometimes this is just photographs, sometimes it is a small bowl or wooden spoon, sometimes it’s just memories. After years of slow travel and obscure places, I have a million stories to tell and an unending amount of inspiration.
With Narradora, I hope to take experiences from around the world and use them to inspire others to try something new, to book a ticket, or to elevate their everyday lives with memorable pieces, moments, and art.
At Narradora, each collection I create is handcrafted and designed to bring the world's most interesting places, and unforgettable experiences, into your home.
Collecting the world in pieces
Bali collection : palm painting no.2
meet me in Mallorca : yellow striped bowl
meet me in Mallorca : lemon tray
“Because we are more mindful, each day is long and lazy, its contents more memorable, separable, and distinct. This is why a week spent in a new place always seem to have many more days than a week spent at home.”
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind”
