MindnBody

The answers to that one question for me could probably fill a book. Each person I tie is unique and diverse and has something to share and to be gained from our connection at that particular moment.

I?m a very logic oriented person. Very binary, ones and zero?s kind of guy. If you give me an object, my first instinct is to analyze it, determine the quality with which it is made and then go about figuring out how it works. The same goes for a person who desires to be in my rope. I want to know the unique qualities that person has and what brought them to the point in life they are at now. I can touch their skin and read parts of their past. Scars, freckles, tattoos??each tell a story that my rope allows me to explore. A way to find out how that person works.

I uncoil my rope and run it through my hands. I check for burrs, stray objects and pull the twists from it. I?m also forming a connection, between the rope and myself. When that first lay of rope is across the person?s skin that connection transfers to them. I check the lay of the rope and for twists that would pinch. I have a feeling I want to give to each person that I bind and to push and pull them into the design that I see. As the binding continues, there is always that connection between myself and the rope and the bottom. The energy stored in that rope from all the lovers, bottoms, switches, and even the tops whom I?ve shown a tie or two to use on their own, stays with me in each strand of hemp or MFP or spun silk or bamboo.