Fort Lonesome

Hello friends! It’s that time of year again! Summer is here; the weather’s getting warmer. Living in Austin for all these years has made me realize how lucky we are to have an abundance of natural swimming holes, rivers and lakes within our reach. Not only are they a refuge from the heat; they nourish our souls. Tomorrow, we celebrate our connection and protection of these sacred waters. Join us as we ring in 25 years of and their annual beer launch, aptly named Take Me to the River. TLW work hard behind the streams to keep our rivers, aquifers, lakes, etc. clean and flowing. We’ll be set up from 5-9 to offer a special assortment of limited patches, flash and goods from and see you there!

I’ve been quite quiet on all these social channels for the last couple years-

I, like so many of us, have found the schizophrenic cacophony of righteous stance-takes to be driving us collectively away from the messiness and beauty of actual relationship-building.

I’m trying, like so many of us, to feel into what’s next. You’ve heard it all before so I won’t go on. We’re inexorably dependent on these platforms that we’re learning more every day are driving division.

I’m unsure about almost everything, but one thing I do feel certain of is that there is necessary medicine in art, art making, gathering and celebrating.

The other thing I feel certain of is that there is a timely medicine in developing a reciprocal relationship with land and place. That feeding the spirits of the places you hold sacred is as important as protecting them.

This piece is part of the Native Species show that opens tonight at . It is a cloth alter designed to make a space for feeding, crafted for the guardians of the Chisos.

Although I’m out of town tending to family matters, I hope you go. See art. See people. Laugh. Be messy.

at her finest, folks! No need for distracting embroidery 🤓, just pure craftsmanship and devotion to the process.

Yes, we can make an embroidery-free suit that still makes a statement.

Monday we’ll open the queue for a small handful of 2026 custom projects- a deposit for a custom suit makes a lovely holiday gift btw- a portal into deep time via contemplative collaboration- an antidote to the acceleration induced psychosis we’re all attempting to mitigate.

Thanks to for trusting us with this project. And thanks to our friends at for hosting the big shindig where it made its debut.

We’re preparing to open up suit orders again after a long hiatus of catching up and slowing down.
We’re only going to take on 6 new suit clients- in the past we’ve struggled with our queue getting leggy and difficult to manage- and thereby have decided to just intake an intimate number of projects at a time.

This ought to allow us to devote due diligence to each project- and to honor the spirit we’re inviting to occupy the space previously drowned in the miasma of scarcity and over-production.

We know everything feels insane, and that a custom suit right now might feel like a frivolity best reserved for more celebratory times.

We offer in response an opportunity to dive deep into the process of co-creating something human-tended, something that gesticulates slowly, something that tells a story.

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We hope to connect.