Annabelle Gabriell Mann - illustration

@annabfromthetree

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Hi, my name is Annabelle Gabriell Mann, also known as “annabfromthetree”. I am 26 years old, from Escondido, CA. Virgo sun, Libra moon & Gemini rising. I’ve been creating ever since I can remember. Always wanting to be working with my hands, making potions wit flowers from the yard, painting, doing watercolors, drawing images in the Earth. When I was jus a lil boo, on very special occasions my mom used to take me to a bead shop near the ocean & let me pick out n design a necklace. Creative outlets have always given me piece of mind- though through the shifts n changes of becoming a woman, much of my drive & internal instinct to create was hidden by school & friends & grades & sports. But as time went on she called me back home & I’ve never looked back.

I began seriously creating jewelry & selling it at our local farmers market in Escondido, the hidden valley, in southern CA in 2015 & was so happy to find a craft I could take on the road with me - I was doing a lot of traveling in & out of the country, Thailand, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic & also spending a lot of time traveling up & down the CA coast in my ‘84 VW Westfalia. This is where my online presence/store began to grow, I was able to collect many gems & minerals, beads, etc around the earth as I traveled & create pieces/put them up for sale through my website. Within this time I found a deep love & Joy for painting. I feel as though these beings want to be seen & they use me as their tool to let them come to life on a canvas. This seems to be most deeply connected space to exist in. I feel honored to be able to create for a living & have many new things in store I’m looking forward to sharing when the time is right. Peace & blessings.

UNION

I am so many fucking things intertwined, weaved, swirled into one. And here is my representation of how I feel inside when I experience a union of masculine & feminine energies within me. To be my own mother, my own father, my own sister, brother, child, friend & lover. Everything exists here.
Seems as if we’re always searching outside of ourselves to find home. Journey far n wide jus to get to what’s inside. I’ve been learning to come home to myself. To deeply love & acknowledge myself in my darkness, in the raw, tears streaming down my face, snot coming out my nose, can’t stand to be in my skin for another second & to be so very present in the spread your legs open, howl at the moon, shake ur ass, jaw clenching joy. I’ve shed many skins. Found a union between the divine masculine & feminine within me. Seeing them as one. Using them each as a tool, asking for their support & guidance to help me shift, evolve, take action, be receptive or do nothing at all. I am learning my cycles, my patterns. Using them as my most beautiful & unique strength. Working with the natural flow rather than fighting it. I find happiness in my solitude, drinking coffee in the sun, painting, working with my stones, dancing, touching leaves & flowers, singing, hugging myself, taking photos, cooking, breathing. My whole life feels like art. Interconnected & beautiful & fucked up. Heart wrenching & orgasmic, sadness, heaviness, freedoms, desires. I’m learning to ask for what I want & what I need. To believe that I deserve everything & trust that I have all the tools & guidance to get me there. I am unbelievably blessed. I have many allies & many teachers. I feel whole. Powerful. Aiming myself in the direction I want to go & being fluid when i need to. our lives are so much what we make it - if we choose to aim, ready set go. I am lucky to be all that I am & I will continue to work towards my goals n dreams, connect wit this fucking beautiful earth, become more kind, more receptive, more ruthless about what I deserve, more confident, more honest, more in tune with my rhythms. & for any & all things you see in me- they also reside in you. You’re as free as you wanna be, so fly.

I felt this connected with the theme of sustainability for ME because I feel like when I can find a relationship & union between the masculine and feminine within myself my own happiness and contentedness is much more sustainable. My center and balance seems like it can be sustained just by being with myself.