S.K.L.D.E.P. Ink

{Sky Koltun. Little Dog. Elephant Princess.}

If No one has told you

"I Love You"

yet today...

I do.

Most of my designs come to me in my dreams...

I plan them out backwards often, thinking of the finished product, and then mapping out techniques I will use to create them.

Often these dreams wake me up at night and I have to go and create something like a ring with four feathers at 3 AM.

Working in metal and jewelry is a love that comes from inside me, and can only be matched with a love for charms and stones and words, and the magic they can bring.

I love to create things that I see in visions.

I make spiritual, ethereal, and original creations that often make me laugh, and make others smile.

The most important thing is that the things I make give people joy and make them feel special knowing that they are wearing

something that was created in joy, and made with love by an artist.

What it means to be an Artist

Art is more than just self-expression and communication.

It is not just a means by which we can talk or show each other what we can do.

There is something more to it than that.

We all have sublime qualities which one cannot really explain. Perhaps our most personal feature is our imagination; with it we can do anything - we can escape the physical world and experience things that are impossible to humans.

...And yet art itself is so earthly that it cannot itself exceed the physical world - it can only display what we envisage. I suppose its role is that of escapism; a way of transcending our limitations and doing whatever we want. Art just presents it. Of course, countless artists use art as a means by which they can bring about a change or highlight a cause. But even when it is not political, it still provokes higher thought in other ways.