https://thornsandstillness.bigcartel.com Handmade mixed media art about pain, beauty, and growth-where broken things are still allowed to bloom. 118121970 Buried, Yet Blooming <p><br/></p><p>This original mixed-media wall sculpture explores the feeling of being buried by life while the world continues to grow and feed around you.</p><p>A cracked clay face emerges from layers of earth, moss, and soil. Flowers bloom across the surface while insects and worms move through the landscape — symbols of decay, transformation, and the quiet persistence of nature. Even in stillness, life continues to grow, consume, and renew.</p><p>The piece reflects the experience of emotional weight and exhaustion — the sense that life is feasting on what remains of you — while beauty still finds a way to exist in the same space.</p><p>Materials include sculpted clay, preserved moss, textured soil, and hand-placed botanical and insect elements on a round canvas base.</p><p>Each detail invites the viewer to look closer: growth beside decay, softness beside fracture.</p><p>A piece about survival, pressure, and the strange beauty that can grow from being buried.</p><p>• Original mixed media sculpture</p><p>• Ready to hang wall art</p><p>• One of a kind</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p> 85.00 USD https://thornsandstillness.bigcartel.com/product/buried-yet-blooming https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/69380f8c-5156-4392-b299-09f5ef8f485d/buried-yet-blooming.jpg 118121970 new in stock 117514497 Still I Grow <blockquote>This three-dimensional mixed-media artwork explores the emergence of beauty and growth after devastating pain intended to erase or bury the self.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote>A female head is set upon wood, becoming both container and ground. From it, layered botanicals, clay elements, and butterflies rise upward—suggesting regrowth that is not gentle, but earned. What was meant to suffocate instead becomes the soil from which life insists on returning.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote>The contrast between solid structure and organic movement reflects resilience shaped by trauma: growth that carries the memory of what came before it.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote>Created using wood, foam, sculpted clay, and mixed media elements. This is a one-of-a-kind sculptural wall artwork.</blockquote><p><br/></p> 180.00 USD https://thornsandstillness.bigcartel.com/product/still-i-grow https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/5ea29d32-0dd9-49bf-853b-4cf6fcb93392/still-i-grow.jpg 117514497 new in stock 117514410 Pearls Under Pressure <blockquote>This three-dimensional mixed-media artwork explores the concept of inner worth hidden beneath psychological fracture.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote><br/>A sculpted head emerges against a black velvet background, its surface partially peeled back to reveal a hollow interior filled with pearls. The wound becomes a vessel—holding beauty, pressure, and accumulation rather than emptiness. Handmade clay roses, leaves, and butterflies surround the form, creating a contrast between tenderness and exposure.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote><br/>Pearls are traditionally associated with value and rarity, yet here they are concealed within damage, suggesting how resilience, intelligence, and beauty are often formed—and hidden—through pain.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote><br/>Created on a 12x16 canvas using foam, sculpted clay, velvet, and mixed media elements. This piece is a one-of-a-kind original artwork intended to be viewed as sculptural wall art.</blockquote><p><br/></p> 75.00 USD https://thornsandstillness.bigcartel.com/product/pearls-under-pressure https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/f7eb015f-ffed-4e56-a76c-c7539b560be3/pearls-under-pressure.jpg 117514410 new in stock 117514209 Anxiety <blockquote>“Anxiety” is a mixed-media, three-dimensional canvas exploring the physical experience of living in a constant state of overwhelm.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote><br/>The figure’s hands press into the throat as organic growth pushes upward—beautiful, invasive, and impossible to ignore. Clay florals, preserved moss, and textured botanicals emerge where breath should be, symbolizing how anxiety can feel both alive and suffocating at once.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote><br/>This piece reflects the contradiction of anxiety: the coexistence of beauty and pain, growth and constriction, resilience and exhaustion.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote><br/>Created on a 16x20 stretched canvas using acrylic paint, sculptural elements, and natural textures. This is a one-of-a-kind original artwork.</blockquote><p><br/></p><blockquote><br/>Please note: Due to the dimensional nature of this piece, it is intended as a sculptural wall artwork and should be handled with care.</blockquote><p><br/></p> 50.00 USD https://thornsandstillness.bigcartel.com/product/anxiety https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/70b737b9-7658-43a4-8799-2190f4750b48/anxiety.jpg 117514209 new in stock