Craft as a way of thinking. Conversation as a way of making.
I'm Jamie, and I believe making something with your hands can change the quality of a conversation.
Craft for Conversations is a personal project exploring what happens when craft and dialogue meet. Each project starts with a question I'm curious about. Conversations, some deliberate, some incidental, shape the making. The finished piece then sometimes opens up new conversations of its own.
My making started at mademyownco, where it was just a hobby before it became a way of thinking.
Every project begins with a question I can't quite answer yet.
Topics find me in different ways. Sometimes a material sparks a subject, working with concrete led me to think about migrant workers in construction; a pile of imperfect ceramics at home became a prompt to explore perception. Sometimes a subject arrives first, with no medium in mind at all, and the making comes later.
Once I have a question, I take it to the people around me. I pose it on Instagram, share my own half-formed thoughts, and pay attention to what comes back. Those responses, alongside my own, get synthesised into themes that shape both the craft and the conversation.
Where I can, I connect each project to an organisation doing work in that space, as a way of grounding the exploration in something real.
Let’s start a conversation together.
Have a project in mind? I’d love to hear about it and explore how we can bring it to life.