We are Elena and María and we want to share with you three things about us:

1. We are passionate about contemporary crafts: the balance between art and traditional techniques, between creating and preserving, between moving forward and staying rooted.

2. We love objects, but we love the people who make them even more: their inspirations, their creative drive, their journey and the horizons they look at.

3. We are mesmerised by creative processes and how things are made: the relationship between the raw material and the person who transforms it. That dialogue—sometimes calm, sometimes wild—is the essence of craftsmanship.

That is why we have created VOA: to promote contemporary crafts and its new creators, to discover singular pieces and learn about the processes that make them possible and to create a virtual and human community where artisans and artists can get together and talk about what moves them.

VOA means"to fly"in Galician, the language of the region of Galicia (north west Spain), where we come from, and it is an invitation for creators—and for ourselves—to spread our wings, take a leap, believe that it is possible. For that reason, as well as to honour those who inspire us to fly, each of our collections is named after a bird. The first one, Lavandeira (Wagtail, Motacilla alba).