We were lucky to catch up with Saraphym Wright recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Saraphym, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I have always been an artist and have always wanted to pursue art in some way but never knew how. In 2020, after not getting a job I wanted at a skate shop, I started doing resin (the two were not connected at the time). I made my first ever resin pyramid on June 22nd, 2020, and from then on, I could not be stopped. I started posting the pieces I was making and my friends wanted to buy them! I was so excited and people kept wanting more. A couple months later, and I vended at my first event and nearly sold out. It was in this moment that I realized I loved doing this — making art and sharing it with people — and I wanted to continue to do this for as long as possible. That day, my mom came up with the name “Saraphym’s Blessings”, which was actually the name she gave me when I sold bracelets when I was younger.

Saraphym, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Saraphym, I am a visual and performing artist from Miami, Florida. I grew up in an extremely musical family, my mom is a conscious hip-hop emcee who has worked with many artists and been on several tours, and my dad is a multi instrumentalist and producer who played bass for Ky-Mani Marley on worldwide tours for the first good chunk of my life. My brother is also an amazing musician and producer. Although music was deep in my blood, I always felt drawn to more. I was a dancer for around 10 years, training to dance with Alvin Ailey. Dance was therapeutic and felt like home. I eventually couldn’t dance anymore so I shifted back to music. I went to performing arts high school, and during my time there I went from a dance major, to a vocalist, to a film major, and by senior year, I truly could not contain my artistic outlets. I was a film major but also taking a painting/drawing class, and a fashion design class. The summer after I graduated in 2020, I started Saraphym’s Blessings as a means of expression as well as connecting with community, and providing affordable access to handcrafted intentional art that can be used to help one on their spiritual journey. Items include pyramids, trays, Buddhas, and zodiac discs made with resin, as well as seed bead, crystal and wire rings, wire nose cuffs, and hand painted incense holders. These products are made with the purest intentions to help lift the energy of those who bring them into their spaces.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

I think the best thing that society can do to support artists is just that, support artists. Buy their art, stream their songs, show up to their shows and bring your friends, open your space to them for events, give them suggestions of places they can perform, host, or create, repost their posts on social media. There are so many things you can do as individuals and as community to support artists, we just have to be open to the possibilities and opportunities that we may not have previously imagined.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

For me, the most rewarding aspect of being an artist/creative is the fact that not only is my art healing for me, but it’s healing for other people. My art being important in someone else’s life just fills me up with so much joy. People will come up to me randomly and be like “omg hey I bought something from you!” Or, when I check the streams for my music and see like 4 streams in India or like any place that isn’t America my mind is just blown, like that’s so crazy to me in the absolute best way!!

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @Saraphymmm