Meet The Maker
Julie Wong Sontag ~ Uglibeads
Firstly, I’ve got to ask...why “Uglibeads”? Especially when they’re so beautiful!
I get a lot of of hilarious notes telling me that my beads are not in fact ugly.
But trust me, they were. The name has been with me since the way-back days,
when I first started making beads in 2001. In truth, it’s about learning. No one
starts out making beautiful stuff right away - in any art medium. I turned out
lots and lots and lots of ugly beads on my way to making things that were fit for
public consumption. I go through the same process whenever I try something
new. The first attempts are not always pretty. In fact, they almost never are. I’ve
learned over the years that the ugly beads mean that I’m growing and evolving,
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