Welcome! I am excited to share my newest project - Invocations. This one is a bit different from what I have done in the past - which is a little terrifying lol - but also part of the fun of being creative.

For this series, I am designing a set of sigils - each designed using the forms of bones and claws, horns and ribs - organic shapes that I find to be quite beautiful and calligraphic. These will be three dimensional, sculptural metal pins and charms.

Each sigil is based on a character class, originating from classic fantasy games and stories - but I hope to elevate them to archetypes that we all embody in one way or another. I'm drawing from the traditions of runic symbols and talismans that carry the weight of meaning in a beautiful form of lines and shapes.

These are meant to be worn as jewelry, either as pin or necklace (I hope to make both with this campaign), so that by wearing them, you can invoke the spirit embodied in the sigil.

To start with, I wanted to share my first design - the Warlock - or as its archetype - the Vessel.

To invoke the Warlock, invoke the Vessel - is to open ones self up to a power beyond your own and accept the bonds that come with it. 

The Vessel's power is not inherited by birthright or bestowed by faith, it begins with an exchange -- a pact with some entity greater, stranger, or more dangerous than one's self. To become the vessel is to make space for that other power within yourself; to carry it, draw from it, and inevitably be altered by it. There is agency to the choice, a binding that goes both ways, but never complete possession. 

Something is given. Something is owed. 

I designed this sigil to reflect that tension between receptivity and constraint. It's arching forms embrace a central opening, a negative space - enclosing without fully closing. Within that space, a spine carries the eye upward toward something else, just beyond reach. It is both a container and a conduit.

This talisman is a symbol for those willing to reach beyond the limits of their own power, to call into the shadows, to seek into the void above filled with stars - and accept whatever answers, no matter the cost.