What is the meaning of Odassey?
Coming from a background of working mostly with Photography and Film during my studies in visual communication I’ve already gained experience in working with different forms of composition and materials. I used to do a lot of miniature set designs for my projects that I would incorporate into my work. I wanted to create a different world. Maybe because the one I was in, wasn’t right all the time.
When I got pregnant I had to face a lot of changes within myself and my surroundings and most of the times I couldn’t celebrate those changes within me and my family to be. I felt like I wasn’t in control, and I was feeling bad and very sad for wanting to have control. Mostly this Journey felt like a so called 'Odyssey' - completely out of place, not knowing what’s coming next surrounded by exitement, anxiety, uncertainty, all those things at once.
At one point, I asked myself if I wanted to continue with my work in Photography in Film since I didn’t do Projects as much as I wanted anymore, I’ve put a lot of pressure on me to come up with ideas for projects that I could do at this time, and I couldn’t come up with any. I had to take the pressure away, allow myself to stop and focus on something that brings me joy. I started to play with just simple clay, and for once I felt like I could reconnect with myself. Just creating, no concepts, no pressure, no meaning, no nothing just joy. Pure joy. Like a child.
I think that’s when I started to create things I could wear and take with me everywhere, to remind myself of how much excitement it gave me. Insomnia just came right in place, too, I’ve spent nights researching about different techniques, learning from other artists on YouTube, teaching you how it’s done, seeing other Artists coming up with amazing ideas and skills, expressing themselves in a way that pushed me to the point that I wanted to become a part of it too, and learn more and more. Also because I started to realize it could be an optional new career path for me. Something I really could imagine for myself.
When I started to become more serious about it, I’ve felt like I had to come up with a name.
I’ve always liked the name Oda, which comes from Old High German ("ot": "possession") and means
"owner", "heiress", "who has possession", "who protects possession“.
Since I've felt like I just arrived at the end of an odyssey, I felt like it would be a clever move to just combine both words. I liked the sound of it and It felt right. Because from my perspective it’s not about what you receive or what you own but what you make out of it. Just because you possess something, doesn’t mean that it’s something good or fortunate, sometime we have to let go of certain things, to go ahead, be a bit lighter on our path. It means to me a lot of possibilities, good and bad, but nothing we can’t take.
