Raven’s Eye Studio

04/19/2026

The Crone is the most misunderstood aspect of the feminine cycle. In the Maiden–Mother–Crone triad, she is the final phase often associated with age, endings, and death. But in myth and tradition, the Crone is not decline. She is completion.

Figures like The Cailleach in Celtic lore embody winter, storms, and the shaping of the land itself. She is ancient, powerful, and not bound by youth or beauty. Her role is to strip the world down to its core. What cannot survive her, was never meant to.

The Crone does not nurture like the Mother.
She does not seek like the Maiden. She sees. In many traditions, she is the keeper of thresholds the one who stands between life and death, illusion and truth, past and what comes after. This is why she is often linked to witches, seers, and those who live on the edges of society. She has nothing to prove.

Nothing to gain. Nothing to lose. And that is what makes her powerful. The fear of the Crone is not really about age. It is about what she represents.

A version of the self that no longer performs. No longer seeks approval. No longer hides behind softness or expectation.
She is the phase where identity is no longer shaped by the outside world. Only truth remains.

In myth, winter always comes. Not as punishment. But as a necessary end to what has run its course. And the Crone is the one who brings it. Not to destroy.

But to reveal what is strong enough to endure.

03/23/2026

Inspiration for next piece of work.

Artemis was never meant to belong to anyone. She chose the wild, the untamed, the path that did not ask her to shrink in order to be loved. While others built identities around devotion and attachment, she built hers around freedom, instinct, and self-trust. She did not reject connection she rejected anything that came at the cost of herself.

And that is where most people misunderstand this kind of power.

Because choosing yourself does not always look graceful. Sometimes it looks like walking away from people you thought would stay forever. Sometimes it looks like silence where there used to be constant communication. Sometimes it looks like becoming unrecognisable to those who only knew the version of you that bent to keep them comfortable.

There is a grief in this. A quiet, heavy knowing that not everyone can come with you when you decide to stop abandoning yourself. Because some connections were built on who you were when you were easier to access, easier to influence, easier to overlook.

But outgrowing is not betrayal. It is alignment.

Artemis teaches that your life is not meant to be negotiated down into something that fits other people’s expectations. Your instincts are not wrong for wanting more space, more truth, more honesty, more respect. That pull you feel to step back, to reevaluate, to stand alone for a while that is not loneliness, that is recalibration.

You are remembering who you are without everyone else’s voice in your ear.

Not everyone will understand this version of you. Some will call you distant. Some will say you’ve changed. And they are right. You have. Because you no longer confuse connection with self-abandonment.

You no longer stay where you have to silence yourself to be accepted.

So if it feels like you’ve lost people along the way, look closer.

You didn’t lose them.

You found yourself.

03/23/2026

This new work in progress has been inspired from the story of Artemis.
The finished piece will be in pen/ink.

03/23/2026

Artemis was never meant to belong to anyone. She chose the wild, the untamed, the path that did not ask her to shrink in order to be loved. While others built identities around devotion and attachment, she built hers around freedom, instinct, and self-trust. She did not reject connection she rejected anything that came at the cost of herself.

And that is where most people misunderstand this kind of power.

Because choosing yourself does not always look graceful. Sometimes it looks like walking away from people you thought would stay forever. Sometimes it looks like silence where there used to be constant communication. Sometimes it looks like becoming unrecognisable to those who only knew the version of you that bent to keep them comfortable.

There is a grief in this. A quiet, heavy knowing that not everyone can come with you when you decide to stop abandoning yourself. Because some connections were built on who you were when you were easier to access, easier to influence, easier to overlook.

But outgrowing is not betrayal. It is alignment.

Artemis teaches that your life is not meant to be negotiated down into something that fits other people’s expectations. Your instincts are not wrong for wanting more space, more truth, more honesty, more respect. That pull you feel to step back, to reevaluate, to stand alone for a while that is not loneliness, that is recalibration.

You are remembering who you are without everyone else’s voice in your ear.

Not everyone will understand this version of you. Some will call you distant. Some will say you’ve changed. And they are right. You have. Because you no longer confuse connection with self-abandonment.

You no longer stay where you have to silence yourself to be accepted.

So if it feels like you’ve lost people along the way, look closer.

You didn’t lose them.

You found yourself.

03/22/2026

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Baba Yaga is not the villain of the forest, she is the threshold. The place you are forced to face when you can no longer remain who you were.

She does not guide gently. She does not offer comfort without challenge. She is the presence that meets you when you are lost, when you are uncertain, when you have wandered too far from what is familiar to turn back.

And that is where most people misunderstand her.

Because fear does not always mean danger.

Sometimes it means transformation.

There are moments in life where you are pushed into spaces that feel unfamiliar, uncomfortable, even threatening. Where you don’t recognise the terrain, the rules, or even yourself. Where everything you once relied on no longer applies.

And in that space, you have two choices.

To retreat back into what is known, even if it no longer fits.

Or to move forward, even if it changes you.

Baba Yaga represents that choice.

She is the test of your instincts. The challenge that asks whether you will trust yourself when there is no clear direction, no reassurance, no guarantee of what waits on the other side.

She does not destroy those who come to her.

She reveals them.

Because when everything external is uncertain, the only thing left to rely on is who you are beneath fear, beneath doubt, beneath conditioning.

And that is where truth lives.

Yes, this kind of transformation is unsettling. You may feel like you are walking alone, like you are navigating something no one else can fully understand. You may question yourself, hesitate, want to turn back to what feels safer.

But you didn’t arrive here by accident.

You arrived because something in you is ready.

Ready to stop seeking permission.
Ready to trust your own judgment.
Ready to step into a version of yourself that cannot exist in comfort.

Baba Yaga teaches that not all guidance feels safe.

But that doesn’t make it wrong.

So if you feel like you are in unfamiliar territory, if life feels like a test you didn’t prepare for, if you are being pushed to make choices that feel bigger than who you used to be…

You are not lost in the forest.

You are being initiated by it.

03/13/2026

03/12/2026

Roughed in clay piece. Once dry, sanding and finishing. The start of a new series.