The Spring 25 sample line was delivered in September last year, and I knew right away that it was not right. The voice and theme were missing, and it kept me awake at night. Around this time I found myself in deep conversations about the zeitgeist. I had lost a dear friend in April and was feeling a profound connection to the energy around me like never before. Below the surface, deep in my brain there is a voice that whispers, "this." But it can be incredibly hard to tune in and listen. I have often felt that I am merely a channel or a port through which creative energy goes in one side and comes out the other as a sculpture, so that nothing truly belongs to me. In like manner, when I alter the entering energy and deliver a manipulated version, I create new pathways and trends and thus contribute to a change in future realities. This is an enormous power, as being human lends us such abilities to influence time, and that knowledge is a heavy truth to ponder.

My husband brought to my attention a book we'd had in the house for years by David Lynch, "Catching the Big Fish" and an incredible theory that seemed so remarkably true that it lit my skin ablaze with frisson. He said, "Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure."

Earlier that year I'd discovered a mecca of 19th and early 20th century botanical illustrations, my favorite being some superbly detailed pea paintings. I collaged together textile repeats with not even a thought of where they belonged in Selkie, and submitted them for printing. When the fabric came in September I could see it was the missing link for Spring 2025. It was a magnetic moment that provided me the clarity I'd been searching for. The voice spoke! After weeks of insomnia It occurred to me in an instant, The Princess and the Pea! Of course, materializing naturally from the unified field, as Lynch had described. Sometimes the right ideas come through us at inconvenient moments. So I scrapped much of the existing collection and we got to work re-designing. It was a risky and exhausting decision, but necessary as the voice begged for me to shape this hidden pea into a collection.

We are so connected to nature, we are indeed nature itself. The magnetic field, gravity, our circadian rhythm and the electric charge of the unified field are all scientific wonders that govern our lives. I seek to discover so much more; I am terrified of this life, and so completely and utterly in love with it. I want to scoop it all up and devour it—like a princess wildebeest. This collection is a dedication to sensitivity and a celebration of humanity and its sensitive people.

Let us eat, drink, and dance in our deepest ideas.