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Karin Collins, SpoonFed Art
Inspired by a long-term battle with an eating disorder, emerging wearable art jewellery designer KARIN COLLINS uses ordinary kitchen spoons as a bite-sized canvas for her beautifully unique, inspiring, and self-healing artwork.
Karin Collins is an amazing artist and independent jewellery designer who has a truly interesting and inspiring health-related story - essentially one of battling a long-term eating disorder using ordinary spoons as a weapon.
She is originally from Greenville, South Carolina, and recently moved to Los Angeles to focus on her SpoonFed Art jewellery business full time. Her gorgeous wearable art spoon necklaces - also worn as pins and key chains - have been selling like hotcakes all around the globe since she started her SpoonFed Art website last year and she's just starting to seek placement in boutiques worldwide.
In brief: Karin originally started making her necklaces as a very personal art-oriented therapy to overcome a serious eating disorder she'd been battling for almost 20 years. She first started making art collages of various sorts, and then wound up creating her collages in the bowls of spoons, which soon - with the handles removed - became incredibly gorgeous pendant necklaces.
Without fail, everyone who sees her spoon pendants absolutely loves them, so she soon began giving them to friends, and then eventually selling them as word spread around.
In the past couple of years Karin has completely turned her world upside down for the better through an array of dramatic life changes and has begun to focus on SpoonFed Art full time. It's interesting that the spoon - which could be perceived as an "enemy" by someone with an eating disorder - turned out to be the very weapon that she successfully used to battle her disease.
Karin is almost entirely free of her long-time eating disorder now, and through SpoonFed Art she actively contributes to and spreads awareness of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) to keep the focus of her business on the reason it was started - to help heal. She has donated several of her pendants to NEDA's upcoming online charity fundraiser auction, which will run from October 31st through December 5th.
Karin Collins can be reached through her website at www.spoonfedart.com.