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March 30, 2016

Love Stories - Audrey Louise Reynolds

Name: Audrey Louise Reynolds

Stacked gold rings on a hand arranging dried flowers, with a slim gold cuff at the wrist and a gold choker at the neckProfession: Creator, owner and active President of ALRDYEING and ALR Global Color Corp.

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Hand wearing three gold flower rings pouring dark dye into a small bowl on a wooden table, tray of dried flowers at leftWhere do you reside?

Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York.

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Woman adjusting her hair on a sunlit rooftop balcony, wearing a gold choker and bracelet; right panel shows blurred dried grassesDoes passion always reason with you and your process?

Absolutely, I couldn't do it otherwise.

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Woman's hand wearing a gold ring and cuff reaching for a glass of orange juice; woman in a peach blouse looking up at bare tree branches outdoorsWhat is the best way to describe the process of you and the alchemy?

Trying to harness colors you see in nature and translate them into wearable art or just art harmlessly. I don't want to hurt anything or anyone, just leave the planet as best I can.

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Woman in a peach dress by a wooden fence; hands with rings dipping into bowls of pink and yellow dye on a wooden tableWould you also consider yourself some sort of alchemist in a way?

Yes, I'm in my lab most of the time, and not in meetings.

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Dried flower petals and seed pods scattered on a light backgroundWhere do you draw inspiration from?

The earth, the wind, the rain, chance, and peoples obsession with permanence.

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Woman in a peach dress holding a metal pan of dried flowers; close-up of hands wearing rings arranging the flowersAre you ever short of ideas?

No, ideas are everywhere. I have so many that I find it overwhelming and easy to stray from one to another....some call that ADHD.

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Hands holding dried rosebuds over jars and a hand wearing a gold ring with a white stone against a brown jacketWhat is your relationship with jewelry? 

I love jewelry. I love having materials from the earth wrapped around my body. It's fun! They make you feel beautiful, harsh, or whatever you're feeling. They're really statement pieces and can say so much about someone with such little use of surface area.

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Dried seed pods in a vase beside a hand wearing gold rings and a cuff over a table with packets of yellow dye and a glass of orange liquidDo you have a piece that you keep sacred?

Lots of them from all of the women in my family. I wear them to keep them with me. Some all at once for protection. Some on special occasions that are most like that specific person. They are my most scared objects holding all of the events in the life of the women that made me. My most favorites are my Nana's scarab bracelet which was also my great grandmothers (paternal side), and a big heavy gold ring with a gold rose surrounding an inset pearl and a sapphire that my maternal Norwegian great grandmother made in Brooklyn. My mom said she wore it everyday - it's really so unbelievably gorgeous.
 
Woman in a peach button-down shirt pouring dried dyed plant material from her hand into a metal bowl in a backyard garden
What is the best gift in life?

Life itself. To keep breathing, find moments of happiness, lay in the sun, feel water all around you, have your hands in the earth, and to be a part of this all even though we are doomed as a species.

Photography by Andres Altamirano
Interview and Styling by Cassi Gibson

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