About Us

What is Paganomics

About Us

Back when I was in about 5th grade in the early 90s, around Halloween, my elementary school teacher gave all of the class a stack of multicolor construction paper and told us to use it to make a colorful Halloween image. It was to be of anything we wanted, and we were to try and make it "spooky". I immediately got inspired to make an elaborate chainsaw scene with ghouls, guts, and gore and got to work. I remember articulately drawing and cutting out the several colors of shapes that formed a hockey masked hero wildly swaying their chainsaw across walking corpses in a decrepit, run down, gloom haven, as red paper blood splatters were cut out and affixed to key locations and limbs flung in similar scotch tape fashion. I'm sure I was inspired by a recent video game called Splatterhouse. Holy hell, I thought this looked so awesome when it was done. At the time I was sure this may have been my best work yet! Then, after gawking at my creation, I glanced around the room, and at all of the other student's projects as they too finished them up. I saw big round ghosts, innocent smiling pumpkins, a goofy witch with a cauldron, a big square headed Frankenstein, possibly some kind of haunted house or bat scene or two. And then I started thinking I may not have fully understood the project. Oh well, I was more than happy with mine anyway. We all turned them in to the teacher and left class for the day.

The next morning as I walked in to school I started seeing some familiar images taped to the hallway piping between classrooms. Oh hell yeah these are our Halloween images on full display! I started glancing around for mine, my eyes darting across the hall. Then I nervously glanced again, as I somehow must have missed it the first time. And then furiously started looking left to right, up and down only to find mine was no where to be found. In my head this could only mean mine must be in the classroom, on full display with an award pinned to it, or somewhere else to be shared with the world. But instead, I got a tap on my shoulder from my teacher wanting to talk to me. Her and the principle decided it best to have a chat with me about "appropriate" content at school. Mainly to tell me that my horror Halloween scene was inappropriate and that I needed to focus on making creations more similar to that of the other students. This isn't a surprise as I lived in a conservative area with one religious dominance. I took the coaching with a grain of salt because I was convinced that if I liked the project this way, other people might too.

Later that year I would go on to win some Arbor day contest for the school by drawing a nearly dead tree, sad and miserable, but to highlight it's potential to still hold beauty. As well as win multiple other art contests over the years that focused on the darker side of any given topic. I started making my first fan fantasy stickers and shirts based loosely on Song of Ice and Fire houses almost 15 years ago out of adhesive and heat pressed vinyl, before the Game of Thrones series ever aired. These turned into smaller home projects or gifts for friends. As did decades of paintings and other drawings. 

After working a lifetime in a corporate leadership world, I came to the conclusion that it's just not for me. That it's more of the conformation to a classic Halloween scene art project instead of a personal choice horror scene. IE: it works for a lot of people, but not everyone. I need that ability to artistically express myself, and help other people also express themselves as a result. Over the last year+ I've been hand crafting jewelry and horror related large wooden cutouts for trade shows. More recently learning how to create extremely comfortable screen printed and digitally printed shirts with unique designs. I do this because I love it.

About Our Purpose

I had a teacher once (different from the one above) that told me every possible thing you can imagine, is a mixed combination from a source of other things. Meaning, you can't imagine or describe something that doesn't exist in at least some capacity in another version. As an example let's take Cthulhu: we know of it as a sometimes humanoid body shaped squid face with tentacles and vulture wings. Or a Dragon: which is simply a lizard or dinosaur in epic proportion with or without wings. An Elf: a slim human with fur free bat ears. A Manticore: head of a human, body of a lion, tail of a scorpion. I'm sure you get the idea. 

I see Paganism in the same light when compared to all of the dominant world religions. All common place stories and mainstream beliefs tend to have portions(if not the entirety) pulled from ancient rites and rituals. Throughout human history, we have worshipped the sun, we have feared the tremors of quakes, crackling lightning, and crashing waves as anger from the gods, we thanked deities of bountiful seasons for their blessings, and we are wild in the moonlight. We have continual iterations of cycles of rebirth, life, and death. In both annual nature following the sun and moon cycles, and in stories of human existence. We follow elements of nature, and feel elements of the spirit world. We are witches. We have rituals. We have our own beliefs. Regardless of what a newer iteration claims as the ultimate truth.

Paganomics is currently only a very small team. But the underlying purpose of it wants to help the underrepresented, feel connected and appreciated. Whether that be through representation of a wiccan rite, or a simple skeleton shirt embracing the afterlife. The most important thing we want from you is for you to find an appreciation for who you are, love yourself, value the diversity of other beliefs in the cosmic cycle, and the rest of the world will be better off. And also, your neighbor doesn't get to decide your personal life art style, that's entirely your call.

Values

• Quality: Our items are hand made/designed using high quality products. Jewelry will always be made using high quality parts and hardware. Only using hypoallergenic metals. Shirts will always be quality checked and printed on soft cotton or cotton blend shirts that look and fit amazingly. These will never be itchy blocky cheap shirts. Defective items that are identified before shipment will be destroyed and the best possible version will always be what the customer gets.
• Customer Service: Continually working to ensure the customer has a great experience.
• Social Issues: There are many social justice programs that align with the enablement of ultimate free will, and people's ability to comfortably be themselves. We will always side with the social justice programs that help with human rights, women's rights including the decisions they will make about their bodies, the advancement of science and scientific research, and environmental awareness.
• Employment: Though we are only a small team now, if the team ever expands and grows, it will only do so under the ability to provide a living wage with great compensation for any and all direct employees.
• Creativity: We strive to create unique and original items in all areas of the site.