Chrysalis Studios — The Salon

The Chrysalis Salon

A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Modern Mind

In the 17th and 18th centuries, artists, scientists, philosophers, and naturalists gathered in salons and cabinets of curiosities — rooms filled with strange artifacts, ideas, and conversation.

Shells from distant oceans Astronomical charts Preserved insects Mechanical inventions Poetry Speculation

These spaces existed not to provide answers, but to cultivate wonder.

Chrysalis Studios draws from that tradition. It is a small experimental studio at the intersection of art, science, myth, and human experience — exploring how we understand ourselves within the vast systems that surround us.

"The Chrysalis Salon invites patrons into this unfolding cabinet of curiosities.
Patrons do not simply receive objects.
They receive fragments of the investigation."

Field notes. Artifacts. Experiments. Questions. Small pieces of the studio's evolving curiosity — delivered into your hands.

This is not a subscription service. It is closer to membership in a thinking room.

The Circles of the Salon

Circles of Proximity

Rather than tiers, patrons join circles — each one a different relationship to the studio's unfolding work. Choose the distance that feels right.

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The Outer Garden
Witnesses of the Chrysalis
$5 / month

For those who wish to quietly observe the studio's unfolding. This circle exists for those who simply want to walk through the garden and notice what is growing.

  • Studio journal entries and research fragments
  • Early glimpses of new artworks before public release
  • Essays and reflections exploring Chrysalis themes
  • Occasional digital curiosities — prints, writings, diagrams
Join the Garden
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The Study
Participants in the Curiosity
$15 / month

For those who wish to engage more actively with the symbolic tools and ideas of Chrysalis. This circle resembles the shared table of a salon, where ideas begin to take shape.

✦ Everything in the Outer Garden, plus —
  • Monthly three-card Chrysalis tarot reflection
  • Ritual prompts and philosophical exercises
  • Early access to new objects and experimental works
  • Opportunities to help guide future studio explorations
Enter the Study
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The Cabinet
Collectors of the Artifact
$30 / month

For patrons who wish to hold small physical relics of the studio's explorations. Like the cabinets of curiosity of earlier centuries, this circle gathers objects that carry stories about the world.

✦ Everything above, plus —
  • Quarterly Chrysalis artifact shipments — mini assemblages, relics, experimental objects, ritual tools
  • Limited-run studio relics not released publicly
  • Field notes about the creation of each artifact
Open the Cabinet
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The Inner Circle
Stewards of the Chrysalis
$100 / month

A small number of patrons who help sustain the deeper experimental work of the studio. These patrons are not simply supporters — they are stewards of the work itself.

✦ Everything above, plus —
  • Annual curated artifact collection
  • Invitations to private studio discussions and salon gatherings
  • Early previews of installations and exhibitions
  • Recognition as a sustaining patron of the Chrysalis studio
Inquire About Stewardship
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Your Own Terms

Any Amount · Any Frequency

If none of the circles above feel quite right, this one is for you. Give what you can, when you can — there's no wrong amount. Every contribution goes directly toward making the next piece possible.

The studio is grateful for your presence here, in whatever form that takes.

Support the Studio

What Lives Inside the Cabinet

The kinds of curiosities patrons help bring into existence.

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Relic Artworks
Small assemblages and objects made in the studio — specimens of the same practice as the larger gallery works, scaled for sending into the world.
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Tarot Draws
Monthly three-card reflections from the Chrysalis themed decks — Burn It Down, Petrichor, and those still forming. Atmosphere as meaning.
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Field Notes
Fragments of research — myth, science, history, material experiments — the raw thinking that eventually becomes a piece or a question worth sitting with.
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Ritual Tools
Prototype objects from the Objects line — energy kits, scrying mirrors, incense experiments not yet released — arriving before the public does.
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Philosophical Essays
Written explorations of the ideas animating the studio — consciousness, time, grief, wonder, the intersection of science and symbol.
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Natural Specimens
Ethically sourced curiosities from the same material vocabulary as the studio — pressed botanicals, preserved specimens, fragments of natural history.
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Unfinished Prototypes
Early-stage objects and ideas shared before they're complete — the messy, generative part of the process most studios keep hidden.
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Studio Reflections
Behind-the-work dispatches — what's being made, what's failing, what question arrived this month that the studio doesn't know how to answer yet.

Most patronage programs promise content. What the Chrysalis Salon offers is something rarer:

membership in a philosophical-artistic ecosystem — a living cabinet of curiosities devoted to the strange and beautiful fact of being human in a vast universe.

"Where art meets science.
Ritual meets psychology.
Myth meets history.
Wonder meets skepticism.

Where objects are not merely decorative,
but evidence of inquiry."

The act of asking questions — about life, time, consciousness, and our place in the universe — is one of the most human things we can do.

The Chrysalis Salon exists for those who believe that curiosity itself is a worthy pursuit.

Join the Salon