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The Girl Behind the Curtain

I sculpted a Mandrake from a block of oven bake clay and ended up creating Herbie, a serene little misfit in the Mandrake world. This easy DIY project uses a foil core, simple shaping techniques, and a few found materials from around the house. A playful, beginner friendly tutorial for anyone who enjoys hands-on creating.

We live in a world of inputs. Images, headlines, voices, each one a data point training us to see, to want, to ignore. The feed never stops. It pulls our gaze from the very things that matter. And we become complicit, numb, scattered, more machine than human, hearts alive yet barely awake. But what if we chose differently? What if we trained our gaze on mercy, on love, on prayers whispered in the dark? What if we turned our attention to the neighbor, to the stranger, to the ones they do not...