"Copy me!" says Indianapolis artist Ponsawan Sila. She uploads tutorials to her blog and freely shares her polymer knowledge. Having been buoyed by an outpouring of support from the online polymer community when her daughter was seriously injured in 2008, Ponsawan shares as a way of giving back.
"Copy all you want, I have plenty of ideas!" she says. Her generous, resilient spirit comes through in all that she does.
By making contact through FaceBook with old friends in Thailand, she began selling her work to a market that has different tastes and needs.