The tasks ahead for creating this product are developing a logo, having tags made, finding a model and a photographer, having a website made, creating packaging, and then trying to spread the word.
I met a famous, brilliant jewelry designer and sculptor from the USA named Doug who recently moved here to Panama, incidentally right next door to me. He likes my project and generously gives me an afternoon whenever I pop by. He has talked to me about logos and packaging and product stories. He has given my books on design and on indigenous art.
There is also an Italian woman named Iris who owns a PR company who finds meaning in what I’m doing and meets with me to discuss what women want, how to market the bags and which celebrities I should enlist.
Another volunteer in the jungle town of Soloy understands this project and digs it. She happens to be a former professional model and knows a very elite photographer and says they will both help me get the first shots of the bags for the website.
When these kinds of things just fall in my path, I am not surprised. It’s that I have felt so entirely filled with the passion and dedication to this project that I touch everyone I see with it. That they were the right ones and they are right in front of me, I suppose when looked at objectively, could be called a miracle. But when I’m in it, it feels completely natural- like that’s the only thing that could happen because this is the right thing to do.
