(a #MutualAid post, i guess)
if anyone can help please?
i'm a disabled, autistic, nonbinary sculptor with a husband and two cats, one of whom needs daily medication and special food.
i'm still down around 75% of my sales this year after having lost nearly 90% in august to november last year thanks to US tariffs. i'm also increasingly missing days of work now due to my deteriorating health. husband is doing his best, but it's just not enough. we are not surviving.
our washing machine is broken; we've spoken to an engineer who's said that a repair will cost at least 750€ and that it's not worth doing, given the machine is 19 years old, so we need to buy another. we also need a car repair; we can do it ourselves, but we'll need to buy a part. and we'll need heating oil soon. plus feeding ourselves and the cats and dealing with health stuff and paying rent and.
so if anyone would like to buy a sculpture or just give us a few currency units to help keep us afloat, that would be amazing.
i'll be adding more sculptures tomorrow and in fact every friday/saturday. i can ship to the US again — tariff free! — but it's quite expensive as the cheaper service hasn't been reintroduced (hence the not many sales, sigh).
thank you, and i'm sorry.
sculptures at: https://www.driftingspirits.art
(or, for UK and norway folk because tax reasons, https://www.etsy.com/shop/driftingspirits)
