A face becomes a labyrinth— splintered, reshaped, stitched together by steel whispers, safety pins holding stories that threaten to unravel. Each shard a memory, a scream silenced mid-air, a smile fractured in its bloom. The pins glint like stars against a sky of obsidian skin, not ornaments, but anchors, binding wounds too heavy for light. This is the architecture of survival: a mosaic of broken truths, where the sharp edges cut both ways— aesthetic and ache intertwined. Hair bleached by ghostly weight, it speaks of erasure, of battles waged in quiet, of a world that demands its narratives neat, its faces smooth and whole. Yet here she stands, a masterpiece of defiance. Each pin an act of rebellion, each scar a proclamation: I will not be unmade. Behind the chaos, a gaze pierces through— both tender and unyielding, an artist in her own ruin, crafting herself into a being that cannot be ignored. Even in pieces, she is whole, and the pins are not her cage, but her crown
Pinned Fragments
5632.0" x 4866.0"
$15,000
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