Husband and photographer, Jeremy Young captured wife Sara Blomqvist not only as model and muse but also as a creator, wearing the handcrafted knit pieces she made especially for this portfolio. Her artistic DIY lineage, rooted in self-sufficiency manifests itself in handmade knits and adoringly intentional children’s clothing. “I realized when I make things that’s actually when I’m the happiest. I feel like I’m achieving something and I enjoy the process of it., from start to finish.”

The nuances of her expression, the subtleties of her body language, the story of a woman captured by the gaze of another, in likeness. A farmer, a mother, a model. An escapist, a realist, a provider. A protector, a humanist, an iconoclast. Kirsten Owen, at forty-eight, remains the epitome of artistic mien, capturing the zeitgeist […]