MANCORIA

Mancoria is wearable art, laced with story. It began with friendship bracelets. Beading. Hammered wire. Then my craft was alchemized in my early twenties, while living in South America.

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I met street artists; traveling artesanos. I was graciously taught how to make every detail by hand. How to carry an entire workshop in a backpack. How to create beauty in the world, even when the world gives so little.

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My craft is a humble ode to them, my friends & teachers. To their stories of sacrifice, dedication, oppression & freedom. Mancoria is named after a few of my favorite coastal towns in Ecuador, where traveling artists flow in & out with the tides.

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Each piece re-purposes material with its own journey. Bike parts. Scrap metal. Mushrooms. Beans. Arthropods. Broken treasures. Antique forks. My work attempts to breathe life into these castaways.

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Mancoria is craft that blends functionality, art, affordability & expression. There are stories in this gnarled metal. And you entangle yourself in them by wearing it.

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Go ahead, look around, and join me as this craft evolves.

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-Kelsey Sheridan, 2017