Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp
Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp

Veins of Grief | Broken Heart Fiber Sculpture | Needle Felted Wool Wall Art by Kristi Yapp

$295.00

I broke once, but I did not end.

Inside me, a smaller heart remains, preserved within the wound that shaped everything that followed. I carry it embedded into my structure.

My surface is carved like land shaped by time. Valleys, ridges, and shifting forms hold memory in fiber. The red veins running through me are not decoration. They are movement. They are grief traveling. They are the mark of change that cannot be undone.

What begins as a fracture becomes form.

What seeps becomes structure.

I broke once, but I did not end.

Inside me, a smaller heart remains, preserved within the wound that shaped everything that followed. I carry it embedded into my structure.

My surface is carved like land shaped by time. Valleys, ridges, and shifting forms hold memory in fiber. The red veins running through me are not decoration. They are movement. They are grief traveling. They are the mark of change that cannot be undone.

What begins as a fracture becomes form.

What seeps becomes structure.

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I created Veins of Grief as a study of how heartbreak reshapes the inner landscape. This piece contains an embedded red heart within a larger sculptural heart, representing the original wound that continues to live inside us long after the moment of breaking.

The surface is intentionally organic, resembling stone, terrain, and erosion. The red lines travel like rivers of blood and fresh scars, symbolizing how grief migrates into every part of life. Loss does not remain isolated. It alters structure, perception, and emotional geography.

This is not a piece about the instant of heartbreak. It is about permanence. It is about what remains, what changes, and what becomes part of us forever.

MATERIALS

Hand felted wool

Solid sculptural fiber construction

Needle felted detailing

DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT

8 inches × 9 inches × 1 inch

Solid wool fiber sculpture

Substantial, dense construction

SYMBOLISM

Embedded heart - The origin wound that continues to live within the self

Red veins - Grief traveling through memory, body, and time

Stone like texture - Permanent emotional reshaping

Organic terrain - The inner landscape altered by loss

Scars - Evidence of survival, not weakness