Hand-felted wool artwork showing a red heart gripped by tendrils emerging from an ancient ruin beneath a sunrise sky
Fiber art landscape with grass foreground, stone ruin, and heart symbolizing generational trauma
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Hand-felted wool artwork showing a red heart gripped by tendrils emerging from an ancient ruin beneath a sunrise sky
Fiber art landscape with grass foreground, stone ruin, and heart symbolizing generational trauma
Fiber art landscape with grass foreground, stone ruin, and heart symbolizing generational trauma
Close-up of textured wool ruin and sunrise representing healing and renewal

Inherited Ruin - Needle-Felted - 2025

$185.00

I was shaped by what came before me.

I carry the weight of old stone, old sorrow, and stories that were never healed.

From the ruins, tendrils reach outward, gripping a heart that did not choose this inheritance.

But below me, the grass still grows.

And the sun still rises.

I was shaped by what came before me.

I carry the weight of old stone, old sorrow, and stories that were never healed.

From the ruins, tendrils reach outward, gripping a heart that did not choose this inheritance.

But below me, the grass still grows.

And the sun still rises.

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Inherited Ruin is a hand-felted wool landscape that explores generational trauma and the ways unresolved pain can pass quietly through a family for centuries.

At the center stands an ancient ruin. It is no longer alive, yet still powerful enough to constrain the heart. Tendrils extend upward, tightening around a red heart, symbolizing inherited emotional wounds. In the foreground, grass connects the scene to the living earth, while a sunrise breaks across the horizon beneath a blue sky.

The sunrise represents choice. It the moment when awareness creates the possibility of change. This work is about leaving the ruins of past sorrow where they belong - in the past.

Materials

  • Hand-felted wool

  • Merino wool

  • Silk fiber accents

Dimensions

  • 7 inches wide

  • 7 inches tall

  • 1 inch thick

Symbolism

  • Ancient ruin: inherited systems, unresolved ancestral pain

  • Tendrils: the reach of generational trauma

  • Red heart: emotional vulnerability and continuity of family

  • Grass: grounding, reconnection to the present

  • Sunrise: renewal, choice, and the possibility of breaking cycles

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