The artist Dennis Hardy, aka "Scooter",
learned the art of "moving metal" while homeless and living on the "streets" in Bisbee Arizona.
As his mother, I can attest to the fact that his passion for creating beautiful wearable art pieces, is a gift, as well as
an answered prayer.
Art is a passion he and I share, and we came to realize we must use our passions to help people
who have found themselves "homeless" for one reason or the other. It doesn't really matter to us why or
how they arrived at being lost in their own world, searching for answers.
What matters is that we let others know
there is hope in this world of ours. There is a reason for everything, and they too need only seek their passion in
life, and chase after it, instead of chasing dead ends.
When you purchase our jewelry, and our arts and crafts,
please know that you are also helping those in need.
A
portion of income from sales of our pendants helps support The Backpack Brigade.
Click here for information on The Backpack Brigade
At the tail end of our "homeless"
journey, my son befriended one of the "street" people, who we could usually find sitting on the grass at the park,
hammering out metal. He made beautiful wire wrap jewelry and my son wanted to learn how.
"Chrispy"
as this fellow is fondly called, agreed to teach Scooter how to do wire wraps. His teaching consisted of telling Scooter
to "Keep your tools shiny" and showed him a basic wire wrap.
Scooter wished to learn the real pretty
wraps, and so he hung one of Chrispy's peices wherever he could find to hang it and would stare at it for hours, and kept
hammering and working with the metal until one day, he said, "I've got it, you have to move the metal".
This truly is an art, if one is to sit and watch one make this type of wrap.
One thing led to another and not
only was Scooter making beautiful wire wraps, he was commissioned to do copper art work on a huge branch which he sanded and
stained, and that branch is hanging in one of Bisbee's finest restaraunts, "Santiagos".
Another gift
and passion of ours is computer programming. That is a whole other story, but basically, we decided to combine our passions
with creating a website to sell our jewelry and art, as a way to help the homeless.
Thank you for taking the time
to read about us. If you are interested in hearing more of our story and of our ability to love life no matter what
happens, please visit our "Half Hitched and Homeless" page.
Kat of The Knotted Branch
|
