Beasts of Burden Collection

Snapshot:

Beasts of Burden is the embodiment of everything you’ve ever held that wasn’t yours to hold — the blame, the guilt, the endless “I’m fine.” This collection honors the heaviness we’ve learned to disguise as strength. It’s primal, unfiltered, and wildly human.

Each pillow is a confession disguised as comfort. Sculptural forms meet feral emotion — because survival doesn’t always look graceful. Sometimes it’s just you, bloodied but breathing, refusing to collapse under the weight of it all. This is where endurance meets elegance. The beauty of carrying — and finally releasing.

Where It Hurt First

You remember the moment you started carrying it. Maybe it was someone else’s sadness you mistook for your responsibility. Maybe it was the silence you kept to keep the peace. Or maybe it was that deep, unspoken duty — the kind that lodges itself between your ribs and calls it loyalty.

For years, you built your identity around holding it together. Holding them together. Holding yourself together. Until one day, you realized your shoulders weren’t meant to be an altar.

Beasts of Burden was born from that moment — the realization that you were never built to break under other people’s chaos. You were built to rise from it.

How It Turned Into Art

Visually, this collection is strength carved from softness — a primal elegance that echoes both fight and forgiveness. The color palette is heavy and honest: deep charcoals, bruised plums, molten bronze, raw umber, and muted ivory. Each design carries visual “weight” — bold linework, animalistic abstraction, textures that mimic stone, hide, and flesh.

There’s tension in every piece: restraint against release, burden against beauty. Because healing isn’t about dropping everything. It’s about learning what still deserves your strength.

The 11 Messengers

Each pillow in Beasts of Burden is a reminder that we’re not beasts because we hurt — we’re beasts because we endured.

1. The Weight of It All — The invisible load you carried with grace no one saw.

2. Pack Animal — Loyalty, love, and the exhaustion of always being the strong one.

3. Wild Hide — The beauty of being thick-skinned and still feeling everything.

4. Domesticated Rage — Anger, softened by time but never forgotten.

5. Heavy Petal — Fragility masquerading as resilience; beauty bending, not breaking.

6. Backbone Theory — What they called cold was just structure.

7. Tamed Chaos — The art of appearing calm while on fire.

8. Leather Mercy — Forgiveness, worn and weathered but still intact.

9. Beast Beneath — The instinct that kept you alive when logic couldn’t.

10. Burdened Grace — Soft power — the most underestimated kind.

11. Unbridled — The liberation of no longer apologizing for surviving.

When This Lives in Your Home

This collection belongs in spaces that feel lived-in, loved hard, and a little untamed. Think dark leather, stone, or concrete walls offset by low, warm light. It transforms tension into art — the kind that commands attention without begging for it.

You don’t have to explain these pieces. They’ll do the talking. Every visitor will feel something — weight, recognition, respect.

How to Live With It

• Pair with raw materials: concrete, oak, brass, linen, and hide.

• Let natural shadows play across the patterns — they thrive in dim light.

• Combine with one indulgent texture (fur, velvet, or silk) for balance.

• Ideal for offices, lofts, or anywhere you do your inner heavy lifting.

This collection thrives where honesty lives — not in perfection, but in presence.

What Healing Looks Like Here

Healing isn’t always soft. Sometimes it’s standing tall under everything that should’ve broken you. Beasts of Burden honors that version of healing, the one that isn’t polished, but powerful.It’s the art of saying: I carried it. And now I’m done.

softcore doesn’t worship pain. We just know how to make peace with it — and make it beautiful.

For the Ones Still Carrying It

“Whose weight are you still mistaking for your own?”“What would you look like without the apology?”

Write it down. Burn it. Then rest.You’ve done enough.

Set the Mood

🎧 Soundtrack:

• “Running With the Wolves” – AURORA

• “Way Down We Go” – Kaleo

• “Skinny Love” – Bon Iver

• “Glory” – Dermot Kennedy

Mood: primal calm. Firelight against stone. The heartbeat of something ancient remembering it survived.

Where Your Soft Side Shows Up

Proceeds from Beasts of Burden support programs for emotional recovery and trauma release — therapy animals, equine healing, and art-based trauma workshops. Because sometimes, the only way to let go of your weight… is to hand it to something that knows how to carry.

Join the Softcore Society

Here, strength doesn’t mean silence. It means setting the burden down and calling it art. Welcome to Softcore Society — where even our scars have muscle memory.