Donni Hakanson is the author of "Oracle of the Dreamtime" & "Native Symbols - A Guide to the Energies of the Australian Bush." Donni is also a glass artist, loves making fractals and being creative  

 

I love creating very three dimensional beads, particularly surreal, fantasy themes as well as flowers. I definitely go through phases with what obsesses me at the time, right now it is miniature paperweights of a contemporary nature. I like pushing the convention of what is traditional. Does shape define a paperweight?  

 

I like to think my life somehow translates into my glass art in creating a new perspective into another world... the one of fantasy and imagination thru a sense of super or hyper-realism, which is achieved through an almost specimen like approach with many layers of crystal clear encasing.  

 

My jewelry making can have a basis in a talisman or amulet-approach, combining my art glass beads with semi-precious gems, vintage medallions, findings, etc. Totemism is a recurring, eclectic theme.