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Duality Rooted is a needle-felted wool broken heart wall piece created in 2025. It explores endurance, opposing forces, and the cost of growth over time. A single tree grows through two worlds. On the left, night dominates with dark gray and deep purple skies, its branches piercing a silent moon. On the right, daylight emerges with blue skies and the yellows and pinks of sunrise. Where the sun should be, a heart appears instead, ruptured as the branches force their way inside.
The tree causes visible damage, but it also represents time itself. Growth is not gentle. Transformation is not clean. This piece confronts the truth that evolution often arrives through pressure, invasion, and survival.
Materials and Process
Needle-felted wool
Hand-dyed wool fibers
Natural and dyed sheep’s wool
Built slowly by hand using traditional needle-felting techniques. Layers are compressed, pierced, and sculpted to create depth, resistance, and surface tension.
Dimensions
8 in × 8 in × approx. 1 in
Wired on the back for hanging
Symbolism
• Duality of opposing worlds
• The tree as time, endurance, and inevitability
• Exposed roots as vulnerability without apology
• Branches as force, reach, and impact
• The moon as witness and memory
• The heart as both source and wound
• Damage as the price of transformation
