Work: Broken/Damaged
Author: Iwona Tamborska
brooch - silver clay, porcelain, beetles, large beetle’s wings, silver, magnets, resin, zircons
Sometimes when the soul gets broken by situations which
it couldn’t bear, the changes are not visible outside.
The mask remains beautiful and smiling, but under
false appearances there are dark thoughts, swarming
and creeping.
A silver brooch with a white porcelain face, broken
in half. It is partly covered by wings of a beetle. When
the wings get opened, the reveal many beetles crawling
out of the head. Some of them are sculpted in silver, some
are real insects preserved in resin