A heart bound in steel, restrained yet enduring, carrying the weight of love and loss.
Captive Heart embodies tension — strength bound tight, love caught between freedom and confinement. Forged of salvaged steel, it is both cage and symbol.
Captive Heart speaks to the paradox of love as both liberating and binding. Its welded form carries the visual weight of restraint, a heart held captive by its own devotion. Across folklore, the imprisoned heart is a recurring theme: the knight imprisoned for love, the lover bound by oath, the enchanted heart locked away. This sculpture embodies that archetype. Its steel form is powerful, yet the eye sees the longing for release. It is not only a meditation on love, but also on sacrifice and the complexity of attachment. Its beauty lies in its contradictions: fragile yet unbreakable, confined yet still alive.
Christine Rose 