A heart of scars and welds, forged in resilience — breakage remade into strength.
Salvaged chains and gears form A Survivor’s Heart, each weld a scar of resilience, each imperfection a testament to endurance.
The heart is not only a vessel of love, but of survival. This piece tells a story of endurance:
salvaged gears, chains, and steel fragments bound together into a heart that still beats, though scarred. Each weld is deliberate, each seam a visible scar, turning breakage into beauty. In folklore, broken hearts appear often, yet the act of reforging them is itself mythic: like the Japanese kintsugi that highlights cracks with gold, or the Norse hero whose wounds became marks of honor. A Survivor’s Heart embodies this philosophy in metal. It is not flawless — it is enduring. Its message is resilience made tangible, an offering of strength forged from what has been broken.
Christine Rose 