About CCC

Contrary Culture Crafts is a non-traditional crafting blog which documents my journey into combining manufactured goods and/or appropriated popular culture with traditional handicrafts in order to highlight the complex identities we negotiate as intellectual, tech-obsessed people trying to reclaim authenticity and individualism in a mass-produced world.

I am extremely interested in juxtaposing technological popular culture themes or mass-produced items with traditional craft styles. I have always found it hard to balance my personal interests (which lean heavily toward video gaming and other technologically-minded pursuits) with my love of handmade items. On the whole, crafting tends to lean toward a fairly conservative, traditionalist design aesthetic, and technology has little to do with hand-crafting. Thus far, I've kept these two interests (and identities) separate, but this blog is my attempt to reconcile the two and try to help redefine handcrafts as something that can appeal to a much wider audience. (lofty goals, I know!)

I'm sure not all of my work will be earth-shatteringly cutting edge or boundary pushing, but it's a goal that I'd like to aim for. Ideally, I hope that some of my work can help complicate people's understanding of what crafting entails or encourage them to blur the artificial lines between their own (seemingly incompatible) interests. I believe that trying to bring little parts of ourselves back into one cohesive, yet complicated, self is something that will (in the end) make us more happy and fulfilled.



My current work is largely paper crafts such as stationary and journals, but I hope to begin producing some crochet and cross-stitch as well.



I am a member of the Part-Time Artists collective, and my finished work can be found for sale on the Part-Time Artists Etsy page.