-J.R.R. Tolkien
Nurture Your Creativity
You love to create with yarn. Why not make with some of the best?
Who am I?
Ethan
Christ-follower, husband, father, artist, fiber fanatic, Tolkien scholar, quasi-luddite, pluviophile, and aspiring homesteader
My goal with Refracted Light Fiber Arts is to help you nurture your innate creativity. I know you want to invest your time and energy wisely into making things that will last and add beauty to your life for months and years to come. That's why I work so hard making sure my patterns and yarns will be the stuff of your crafting dreams.
My fiber arts journey started long before I learned to knit, because making is for me about more than just the soft, beautiful yarn or the cozy finished projects; it's about living into my calling to be creative.
My deep and abiding love for the Beautiful was nurtured from the beginning by my creative mother, my aesthetically sensitive father, and my upbringing in the heart of the picturesque hills and forests of rural Wisconsin. For as long as I can remember, I have loved to create things, but my understanding of the place creativity has in our lives blossomed when I discovered the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and his idea of sub-creation.
In a nutshell, Tolkien believed, as do I, that each of us bears the image of God our Creator, and that an essential aspect of this image is the ability and impulse to create. The “White Light” of the original Creator, is “refracted” through human individuality and creativity into a glorious rainbow reflecting the Beauty of God and his creation.
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One of the three transcendentals, Beauty draws us out of ourselves towards an encounter with the Divine. Often encountered where we least expect to find it, Beauty does not vaunt itself but is often only visible to those who have eyes opened to the wonder that is all around us.
"Earth's crammed with heaven, / And every common bush afire with God, / But only he who sees takes off his shoes"
-Elizabeth Barret Browning
Every single person on this planet is created in the image of God. We thus each have an innate creative ability which must be nurtured if it is to come to full flower. My goal with Refracted Light Fiber Arts is to nurture the creativity of others.
"[M]an, sub-creator, the refracted light / through whom is splintered from a single White / to many hues, and endlessly combined"
- J.R.R. Tolkien
When we make Beautiful things, using our innate Creativity, we work towards a renewal not just of ourselves or our communities but of the world itself. These small acts of resistance may not change the world, but they have great value, nonetheless.
“...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
- George Eliot
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