FRAGILITY
Cristina Celis
Mexico

The Last Breath
Fragility is the threshold where strength meets its limit, where existence reveals its most honest form.
This work, made from weightless paper-thin ceramics, evokes a paradox: delicate yet tense, resilient yet on the verge of breaking. Its structure holds both power and precarity, mirroring the dual nature of all that endures.
Nature balances on invisible threads; one inaccurate movement, and the harmony shatters—echoing the fleeting moment between endurance and collapse, the quiet suspension of the last breath of life.

Brooch « Last Breath », 20025
105 x 43 x 20 mm / 12.5 gr
High fire porcelain, cobalt oxide, glaze and sterling
Modeled porcelain, fired and glazed. Fabricated sterling broach back.

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