Indie Magazine Interview

HEALED BY NATURE :

Inidie magazine interviewed me a little while back - when i had bright orange hair - to talk about my relationship to psychedelics & sexuality.

https://indie-mag.com/2017/11/melissa-tofton-interview/

She is a feminist who creates fetish wear; a vegan who has dedicated her work to leather; she is a nature lover who has found her home in Berlin. Melissa Tofton is a woman of opposites that come together to produce a harmonious entity, because she has made her own rules based on what her inner voice and lucid thoughts tell her. The English-born designer couldn’t care less about fulfilling societal expectations, instead defining a rebellious genre of spirituality, which champions the beauty of the expression of the true self. Melissa is unsure as to whether the acid trips of her youth influenced this process, but what she is positive about is that the use of natural medicine in ritual sessions gave, and continue to give her a new understanding of our world and its needs, a further sense for community and independence. Instead of travelling to seek healing from plants growing on the other side of the world, she relies on the power of medicines that correspond to her heritage: mugwort, mushrooms, and cacao.

May 13, 2020