Relics in the Making: A Conversation With Margot Meanie, Founder of @a_familiar_spirit

Work occupying a space where sculpture and jewellery intersect with gothic storytelling

By: The Lace Ledger

We sat down with Margot, the creative force behind @a_familiar_spirit, whose self-described Anne of Green Gables sensibility threads tenderness, dark romance and imagination into work that feels viscerally symbolic.

Throughout our conversation, Margot reflects on the thriving alternative scene stretching coast-to-coast in Canada, while likening her creative process (and creating in a macro sense) as an act of rebellion in an era increasingly shaped by automation and AI before touching on the wider constellation of dark artists who came before her and work in tandem now, connected less by trend than by a shared devotion to making that resists erasure.

Below, Margot shares her story in her own words <3.