Description: A hybrid of wound and embrace — this sculpture offers not resistance but refuge. Its fractured ceramic elements don’t hide their past; instead, they give the form strength and texture. What appears broken becomes a space for coexistence, where kindness is not ornamentation, but the very foundation of the piece.
The sculpture evokes a creature — part organic, part abstract — with outstretched appendages or wings and a dense central core that might resemble a nest, a shelter, or even a wound.
The combination of raw wood and fractured ceramic reveals a kind of violence behind beauty — like scattered memories gently held together by care.
Yielding to Kindness is not just a sculpture; it is a behavior — a quiet answer to a brutal world.
Broken but not shattered. Bent but open.
It stands as an example of art that shapes not only form, but ethics.
Emotional Geometry and Form
The sculpture lives somewhere between a living being and a grounded structure.
Its extended limbs are not for seizing, but for sheltering.
Near the base, a tangled mass appears — perhaps a heart, perhaps a memory torn.
The joined ceramic shards recall the Japanese technique of Kintsugi — mending cracks not to hide them, but to honor the very act of breaking.
Message and Human Context
It all begins with the artist’s simple hand-written phrase:
“Let us be together and kind. A refuge for others.”
This is not a slogan. It is not heroic.
It is a humble invitation to coexistence.
In an age defined by rejection, judgment, and distance, this work whispers:
“Yield, not to violence — but to kindness.”
And that yielding does not come from weakness, but from wisdom and lived experience.
Final Impact
Yielding to Kindness sculpts silence and turns it into refuge.
It may not speak loudly, but it endures — moving the viewer not from the outside, but from within.
This is a gentle reply to a world that never pauses.
A place to stand, to reflect, and to accept one essential truth:
Some wounds only find meaning through kindness.
