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This piece was created as a meditation on emotional layering. It represents how grief, love, anger, memory, and resilience are not sequential stages, but overlapping realities. The small red broken heart at the center represents the core wound that never fully disappears, even as other emotions grow around it.
By enclosing that fragile center within larger, textured forms, I wanted to honor how people survive: not by erasing pain, but by surrounding it with meaning, experience, and continued life.
Materials
Hand-felted wool
Hand-dyed and layered natural fibers
Needle-felting and sculptural felting techniques
Dimensions
5 x 5 x 1 inches
Lightweight, sculptural wall or shelf piece
Symbolism
Outer green/multicolor heart: Growth, lived experience, emotional complexity
Burgundy inner heart: Deep grief, endurance, memory
Tiny red broken heart: The original wound - love, loss, and vulnerability that remains at the core
Layered construction: The non-linear nature of grief and healing
