seasons matter
There is a world around us that measures time in deadlines, alarms and notifications.
Days slip by in increments of urgency, and it is easy to forget the older rhythms - those written in sunrays and moonlight, in the turning of the earth beneath us.
the thresholds of manawa
Where the seasons begin and end amplifies the creative force behind manawa.
Not just summer, autumn, winter, spring; but the rhythm of ourselves and our environment.
The organic unfurling of chapters through time has always been a comfort to me, and using objects to symbolise these thresholds has helped me honour their presence, their transience, their departure.
remembering older rhythms
Before calendars and clocks, people lived in these cycles. They noticed when shadows stretched long, when dawn came early, when a chill entered the breeze.
Time was measured in growth and harvest, in the length of the day, in the warmth of the night.
These cycles are still here — steady and grounding — if we choose to pay them mind.
designing with the seasons
This is where manawa belongs. The studio does not follow the tempo of markets or trends. I do not design with a marketing calendar on the wall.
Instead, I work in the rhythm of seasons — of the earth, of the body — allowing each collection to be shaped by light, mood, transition, becoming.
Quiet thresholds that ask us to notice what is changing.