Today’s featured Etsy shop is gochemoche, a shop featuring hair accessories, bags, and jewelry.
What inspires you in your work?
Turkish and Japanese crafts. I am Turkish so it is I guess natural for me to be interested in my own culture 🙂 There is so many handwork that is unique to certain cities even villages in Turkey. But they are not known world wide, I would like to introduce them. As for the Japanese arts, simply I am obsessed 🙂 I do not know why but there is very strong connection between me and Japan. I guess the serenity and elegance of Japanese arts inspires me to create. It feels very relaxing like meditation.
What other types of art do you make for fun?
I like all kinds of arts but the ones I can make at home are of course only a few. I love drawing, computer graphics, sewing clothes, origami, making dolls, playing with polymer clay, pottery, amigurumi, sumi-e and the list goes on 🙂
What other jobs have you worked?
I had been a student for a long long time. So I worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant. After I graduated from the PhD program I worked as a Postdoc for a while, but right now I dont have a day job.
Gochemoche can be found exlusively at http://gochemoche.etsy.com.
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Lovely work! And a great blog too – I love all the shops you’ve featured. If you want to check out my blog (mostly jewelry-related), it’s http://www.shyvioletdesigns.blogspot.com.