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Some have given me sketches, others have told me a story and asked me to interpret it through felt-making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/41be4005-4f62-43a0-8aa5-dd79ab556ba6/IMG_4893.jpg Home - Where to Find. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625494707716-DYWKSVPH4QP51AWU28F1/IMG_9187+%281%29.jpg Home - Hi, I’m Sara Palumbo. I’m a fiber artist and shamanic practitioner living and working in Bath, Maine. I grew up in New York City and moved to Maine with my husband in 2015. Soon after my move I embarked on my love journey with the art of felting and shamanism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625497125981-OMUWZUO93KZ4AD0NCN2Z/Cutting+and+stitching+begins.JPG Home - Words Into Wool The Words into Wool Project kicked off during my Winter 2020 Artist Residency @ the Center for Maine Craft. 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They used their hands to create and express themselves. They lived through their hands. For too long, I lived in my mind, an enchanted place filled with stories and glimpses of an otherworldliness that I could never express through my hands until I found felting. Felting gave me a new chance to express myself and my story in its purest and most beautiful sense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625593335206-P53UANVW2RH7DVXWT1SO/IMG_9184.jpg About - For me, felting is a magical mix of sculpture and sewing. When my hands are molding wet wool into felt, it’s a heart-energy transfer like I’ve never experienced, a marriage of stories arising out of my hands and into the wool. When a piece dries and is hung, it becomes its own creature. Each person who views it sees something unique, and to me that’s what’s most beautiful. It’s my way to express myself and honor my mother’s bloodline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625593439498-UQ7D62X0HP2KJLV7F4YP/IMG_3443.JPG About https://www.sarapalumbo.com/the-process daily 0.75 2023-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625582011000-0O69QSTMSHK3U9BMOGXF/The+Way.jpg The Process - It begins with inspiration from… A Meditation. A Dream. Nature. You. A Story. The Compassionate Spirit World. Mythology. A Healing Experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625582238351-72MKYOG8KOG8BZZ1T2LE/Words+into+Wool+-+Material+Samples.jpg The Process - My process is conversational and collaborative with the wool and the found objects. I see my role in the creation process as an interpreter whose job it is to get out of the way so the piece can be birthed in the way it wants to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625583702360-JFB8O7EXLPMQY2WABPZM/IMG_2483.JPG The Process - As I approach a piece or collection I sit in meditation and curiosity with its energy. When I created a collection around the concept of the Holy Grail, I teased apart the phrase and became curious about the words Holy and Grail. I arrived at the notion of Holy as Whole and the definition of Grail as “earnestly pursued or sought after”. I then dove into the mainstream concept of the Holy Grail being a cup, a chalice: something to hold, to nourish, to feed, for pleasure, a container, a conduit for life. The questions of what it is to be held, to be cupped, arose from these queries along with what it is to experience the inception of the sacred and witness the journey of its lifecycle. The image of the Chalice as the Holy Grail has interpretations as symbolism for the female reproductive system. The energy of this really spoke to me. As a shamanic practitioner, I muse and meditate regularly on the idea of lifecycles, whether they are lifecycles of blood and bone, spoken words, the natural kingdom or the energetic world. https://www.sarapalumbo.com/create-a-piece daily 0.75 2025-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/b47e80ac-9283-45c0-88da-f67ace13e00a/Con+Vida.jpg Create A Piece - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625605576544-HBC89PWQK8FCI5LAE7H7/Atlas.JPG Create A Piece -Atlas- Created to express the personal story of Calypso in Boothbay, Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625605733832-NQRKPSVDCZZPDF1J5M66/Dragon+Stone.JPG Create A Piece -Dragon Stone- Created to inspire the logo for Dragon Stone Organizing in Freeport, Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625606738344-BF7STX4GM2S1LXF42A3P/IMG_5728.jpg Create A Piece https://www.sarapalumbo.com/shows-where-to-find daily 0.75 2023-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625595147999-3MLCSPFD3WQTR7Z6YGMJ/IMG_5689.JPG Shows & Where to Find https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625595772797-OA34FQ8IYUAFWHNUCF1M/maine-craft-portland.jpg Shows & Where to Find https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/1625596175386-V3TYAJ6CCX95EMTV3B5D/Center+Logo+Vertical.png Shows & Where to Find https://www.sarapalumbo.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-07-18 https://www.sarapalumbo.com/women-rising-collection daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/490e63d6-c6ae-4caf-ab2e-063acd866447/Women+Rising+Inspo+Board.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/bcc2b2e9-16cc-4be1-89e2-238879c28d16/Con+Vida.jpg Women Rising Collection -Con Vida- “There is nothing more precious than laughter.” -Frida Kahlo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e1f4f6108d914751a108bd/9b5c3cb0-0c90-46b4-a7b9-d3b80ea90538/Lilith.JPG Women Rising Collection -Lilith ~ Wise Liberator- “The Wild Woman within every woman who would rather become notorious than be refrained from bathing in the sea, howling at the moon, dancing in the forest, and making love to life itself. 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