Lisa Raie

Late night thoughts… And I see how pieces gathered over time, some bright with celebration, some worn thin by grief, some patterned with memories we never would have chosen but somehow still belong. Nothing matches perfectly. Edges fray. Colours clash. Threads knot and tangle beneath tired hands. And yet the beauty is not found in perfection, but in the willingness to keep stitching anyway. To hold joy beside sorrow. To let softness live beside survival. To believe that even the uneven pieces...

There are moments inside the studio when I become deeply aware that I am not creating alone. Not in a loud or overwhelming way but through a quiet sense of accompaniment. A feeling that the lives of those who came before us continue to echo forward through the ways we create, nurture, endure, remember, and carry love into ordinary life. Over time, genealogy has become something much deeper to me than names written onto a family tree. It has become relationship. A gentle noticing of the women,...

The studio journal pages haven’t been filling quite as frequently as normal - but today a threshold moment marks the beginning of something that has been quietly forming within me for a long time. And so I share with you all; “The Quiet Company We Keep” podcast was created through a growing awareness that the lives of those who came before us continue to shape the way we move through the world now. Through genealogy, art, writing, memory, faith, and creative practice, I have come to...