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The Child Within Broken Heart Fiber Art | Kristi Yapp Wool Alchemist
I created The Child Within as a reflection of the unbroken core that lives inside every human being. The small red heart represents the original self — pure, whole, and untouched by the damage that life can inflict. It rests within a larger heart that is scarred, twisted, and shaped by experience.
This piece explores resilience and transformation. The outer heart holds trauma and memory, yet around the inner child there is movement, color, and light. Healing continues even within fracture.
The Child Within speaks to survival, restoration, and the truth that the deepest part of us is never destroyed — only buried beneath experience, waiting to be rediscovered.
MATERIALS
hand- dyed wool
Hand needle-felted fiber sculpture
DIMENSIONS
7 in x 7 in x 1 in
SYMBOLISM
Inner child
Resilience and survival
Healing through light
Trauma and transformation
Purity within damage
Restoration of the self
