Odessa

Your favs are now available in my shop!

I'll be relaunching your favorite prints and linocuts very soon.

For the time being, I'll be running my shop through Etsy to keep things easier on me while I transition back to this space. Stock will be minimal but I'm looking forward to offering my artwork to you once more.

It's been awhile but I'm going to be vending at the Maker Market on Friday, May 2nd, with @creepylittlestitch (on insta)

I'll have prints and linocuts available. Come hangout with us! 🖤

The weather has been so beautiful. It's been a perfect time to get some garden things done. Look at my strawberries starting to wake up! 🍓

I also built a bug snug or as I like to call it the "bugs" motel (like the bates motel 😅). It'll help house bugs to overwinter and lay their eggs in.

My studio went from an order packing tornado to a clean little greenhouse. It's officially the end of an era.

I'm finally starting my seedlings for the garden this year. I've been feeling this deep urge to give back to nature and that's what I plan to focus on most this coming spring. 🌱

Is it just me or is February feeling a lot like extended January?

My shop is officially closed. Although I'm still sad, I am overwhelmed with so much compassion and love from the community we've built over the years. You are amazing. Thank you for being here. I'm hopeful for the new things to come. 🖤

It's times like this I remember how powerful music is and how deeply I connect to it. It helps me move through big feelings and be present in them. I've been listening to a lot of AURORA this week. It only makes sense. Her work is deeply connected to the soul and the complexity of this existence.

I'm hopeful, looking towards the new horizon and possibilities. I've felt stuck and stagnant for so long. I hope I can feel that life again. That creative frequency, I lost.

Today's the day. My feelings are like a soup, all mixed together and difficult to define. There's grief, a deep aching in the pit of my heart. I also feel the wall in front of me starting to crumble and I can see little flecks of light peaking through the other side.

How many cats can you spot?

When you become ok with creating things that you don’t like and making mistakes, it give you permission to try. And when you just try, beautiful things start to exist.

Teeffssss. Hope you're ready for all the cat photos

Organizing and preparing orders today. Seeing how you've chosen to pair my work together is such a beautiful sight. Thank you for collecting these pieces before I go.

It's only five days until I close my store and I'm still in disbelief that it's come to this. The grief is coming in waves. It's going to really start to sink in as I get orders packed and start saying goodbye. 🖤

Older tabby cat stretched out on his side laying on a heating pad

On top of my own health concerns. My heart and soul, Yoda, has been up and down with his health as well. He has a lot going on but he also has arthritis so he now has his own heating pad and he loves it so much.

Sleeping tabby cat with a little pink nose curled up on a chunky knit cream blanket

The eepiest girl

Oil paint of a human skull with a broken area on the left eye with landscape of trees and fog and river trickling out of the eye and fall into a black abyss. Background is black, framed in an ornate gold vintage frame.

This one is still one of my all time favorite paintings. She hangs in my own home. 🖤

I love him 🥹

Thank you so much, Anna. 🖤

Woman with long black hair and bangs stands posed staring soulfully at the viewer in front of a large tree wearing a long black dress and a crown made of rib bones and quartz

Odessa here, you may know me formerly as Alexus Elaine. I've chosen to remove myself from the old social media gods and start fresh here.

I've been gone for some time dealing with health issues and working to better myself and my life. Hoping to share my creativity again in a new light. 🖤