A tribute to life, to yourself and to say fuck it - I wanna ride!

Life hits you in the face and takes some unknown turns once in a while.

The idea of rackar started out just after I got my bachelor's degree in retail design in 2017. Not as a result regarding my achievement at school, it was something else that should shook this deeper out of me. I was a 31 year old newborn full of boost and hungry for challenges. Ready to get out there, seek opportunities and to build a career. You know, while the drive still runs fresh in your blood. Suddenly something unplugged my personal merry go round, and I had to face a challenge that I was not ready to deal with yet.

Life just hits you in the face, with a message that your father is no longer here. And there it was, right out of the blue, this message that was ringing in my head non stop. This can not be true, I just spoke to him some days ago, we were suppose to go to this concert together that weekend. I fell into this void. Life and your surroundings stops with you for a little while, and then boom full speed ahead again. While you feel that you are left out there, standing all alone. 

When I think back on this, I guess I started designing and fill up my sketchbook back in 2017. It was as a process of dealing with my sorrow. And storytelling and nostalgia came very clear to me, and became the first elements of my jewelry designing. I wanted to share personal stories through jewelry, but also stories that others can recognize oneself in. Storytelling that unites us, regardless of where one might come from on this planet of ours.

I never meant for this to start out as a sad story, but to be dønn ærlig * it was how it started.

I kept working on rackar´s creative process for a while. Using design strategies and techniques from my education, and took a jewelry course in Oslo. Time passed on and I grew into a new comfort zone, and never got serious about it.

Six spins around the sun after, life hits me unexpectedly in the face again. No one past away this time, but I had to figure out a new way to earn my living. So I literally started running towards the unknown, but in away towards something that had always been here at the same time. But never dared to do something about.

I finally stoped and listened to my inner flame, my childhood dream, and said:

- fuck it. It is time to jump into the wild and the unexpected. So here I am. I know that my working class hero of a dad, would supported me for grasp the walk into the unknown, and to dare to set sail on this rackar voyage.

I hope you will join me on this journey too, and seize the day.

Let´s dance,

Caroline

* dønn ærlig = damn honest.