About the Artist

House of Berseri began in a literal studio—a tiny apartment a few blocks from the beach, shared by Kaelee, her dog, and an increasingly unreasonable amount of art supplies.

A lot of life happened there.

Grad school and multiple part-time jobs became a career. There was falling in love, a pandemic, isolation, an injury, a couple broken hearts, and all the smaller upheavals that happen somewhere in between. Through all of it, making things stayed constant.

Art became a way to decompress, process what was happening, sit with difficult feelings, and learn how to be alone without always feeling lonely. It gave restless hands somewhere to go and slowly turned a small rented space into a world that felt entirely her own.

The medium, however, rarely stayed constant. Painting, collage, resin, vinyl, furniture, jewelry—each new obsession came with a new set of supplies and a fresh hit of dopamine. In hindsight, the refusal to pick a lane may have been a masked symptom of some still-undiagnosed ADHD. Either way, one hobby kept bleeding into the next until a collection of seemingly unrelated crafts started to look a lot like a creative practice.

None of it was supposed to become a business.

Kaelee already had a career and more side projects than any reasonable person needs. She made things because she liked making them—often making trinkets for strangers and gifts for loved ones.

People kept responding to them. Not just that's cute. Something a little more interesting than that. The things she made seemed to make other people happy, too.

After signing up for a market in 2025 and promptly chickening out, she worked up the nerve to try again the following year. Just before her birthday, the doors to her little studio world opened for the first time.

People bought the work. Asked her to sign it. Asked if she taught workshops. Told her what different pieces reminded them of and where they wanted to put them.

So she kept the door open.

Berseri is an Indonesian word associated with radiance—to glow, shine, or light up.

House of Berseri is a place for the things that helped bring a little more of that into one person's life.

Now, that original studio is nearing the end of its chapter. Kaelee can't take everything she's made with her—and doesn't really want to.

Opening House of Berseri to the digital world is a way of letting some of those pieces find lives beyond the room where they were made. It's also a way to share the things they came to represent: curiosity, optimism, taking care of yourself, making your surroundings your own, and finding small ways to feel a little more alive when life gets heavy.

Nothing here was originally made for an audience.

Maybe that's the point.

Come in. Look around. You might find something to hang, wear, use, gift, or keep around simply because it makes the day feel a little less blue.