iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Disgusted that we live in a society where R*pists are "just boys who made a mistake and who shouldn't pay for it their entire Lives". R*pists, Molesters, and Traffickers deserve a level of Justice that our "Laws" do not allow. They are vermin.

010

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Losing Dolly Parton today is really fucking hard. I don't even want her sacred name to be on Herr Mandarine Fotzenwaffel's slack mouth ever.

020

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Being creative helps keep me sane in these insane times.

020

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Irish Penannular brooches make me happy...and it's great to be making this style again.

020

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

More Bronze age goodness, this time in the form of this bracelet based on an extant made by the Lusatian culture and dating to around 1000BCE. The spiral pendants have been seen as both amulets worn around the neck and this time attached to a bracelet. Both are forged from bronze.

010

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I followed a creative rabbit hole inspired by late bronze age jewellery today. Brass and bronze and antique quartz, brought together with great harmony. I am chuffed to bits about this one.

040

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Sometimes it's not about trying to recreate historic items that are super-blingy or adding modern symmetry to an interpretation...the raw and "ugly" can be beautiful, also. Here is my sculpted rendition of a small, Anglo-Saxon brooch of a beast, with the original dating to the end of the AS period.

020

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The Tygers of the Sands Crowns of the East Kingdom (SCA), designed by me based on Nubian and Egyptian examples from a concept by His Majesty Ryouko'jin, made and built by my apprentices and I. These were a great return to Active duty creating after three and a half months of healing.

470

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Slowly adjusting to try trials of having a broken left humerus. The orthopaedic surgeon opted to see how immobilisation would work vs surgery for the time being. Other than the occasional movement, there is no real discomfort. There is a lot that I cannot do...however onward and upward.

151

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The very first coherent thought that I had after breaking my left arm and deafened by the jumble of panicked thoughts was the title of Marcel Duchamp's Dada masterwork "In Advance of a Broken Arm" This week I find out how long I will truly be out of commission.

160

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

As we are one week from A Market Day at Birka in Manchester, NH, I worked in the shop making more bling for people to adopt! Here are two silver brooches...one a square headed bow brooch based on a 6th century example and then a Trewhiddle style disc brooch inspired by a late 9th century piece.

180

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Casting a silver mjolnir blank for hammer forging. Every piece. One at a time. Timeless methods.

070

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

First new piece of 2025! This is my rendition of a silver penannular brooch housed at the National Museum of Ireland. I used garnet cabs instead of amber and I love how that deep red pops against the silver.

030

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here's to another year ready to depart and another ready to begin. May you all spend this last night of 2024 in the throes of Merriment and also Peace. May you ponder your past as you life your present so that your Future will be one full of new adventures and wondrous growth See you all in 2025!

020

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Meta must be doing some major updates, and it seems that their algorithm is targeting posts that are "censorable". Our kitten, Loki, minding the gap because he can.

070

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I had to make this...it just felt right. This is an homage to my dearly departed big boy, Iroh, who I endearingly called Jólakötturinn because he was magnificently large. So just right for the Holidays to complement the Mari Lwyd piece. What do you all think?

070

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I had a huge burst of inspiration today...working on forging more EarShivs™, casting Yule Goats, and listening to good music. The Mari Lwyd is not represented enough so ai decided to carve and cast a Mari Lwyd pendant/ornament. This is definitely one of my better sculpting jobs. Onward and upwards!

2212

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Immersing in a creative endeavour makes life much more tolerable. What keeps you going?

140

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

More from the shop today...silver, ivory, wood, and horn...such wonderful materials to work in. Connecting to the past through the work of ancient artisans is both emotional and profound.

0101

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

History in one's hands is powerful. This Donar's Club is made from mammoth ivory and 5500-year-old Irish Bog Yew. It's such a small thing that transcends time.

090

Louis Garcia @strongfordarts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The Strongford Arts shop is on BlueSky! We will be slowly migrating away from Meta and will be looking forward to bringing our historically-inspired art here. Here's a good way to start...my rendition of a Pictish bone pin found in Burghead, Scotland, made from mammoth ivory!

0100