{"title":"Selected Commissions","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"she-who-feels","title":"She Who Feels","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe Who Feels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reflects the emotional weight and quiet resilience carried by a woman who has lived deeply and fully. The sculpture explores the gradual accumulation of love, grief, tenderness, endurance, and pain over the course of a lifetime, and the way those experiences both fracture and shape us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBuilt slowly through coil construction, the piece mirrors the patient becoming of a woman through time and lived experience. Created from locally mixed black mid-range clay, the sculpture is adorned with hand-sculpted white flowers that emerge from the dark surface like moments of growth born from hardship. 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Composed of three individual figures formed from white porcelain, terracotta, and deep brown clay, each sculpture carries its own form, texture, cracks, and story while standing together as one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThough each figure stands independently, together they reflect the strength found in female community and the profound relationships women build through mutual understanding, vulnerability, and care. Each woman gently holds a flower, symbolic of tenderness offered freely to one another and the ways we help each other grow through life's most challenging seasons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe delicate fractures throughout the work are intentionally preserved and accented with 22k gold, honoring hardship not as something to hide, but as evidence of resilience, survival, and emotional depth. 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