When someone dies we have a ritual and a way of showing the world our grief, but when the grief is from a broken heart we have none. In this project I have tried to look into the grief of heartbreak and designed a ritual and a way of showing and dealing with the sorrow.
SELECTION FROM THE PROCESS
Heartbreak comes with emotional pain as well as physical pain. In the process, I looked into where on the body people feel the sorrow after a heartbreak. I have asked people to sculpt their sorrow in clay to understand the shapes of sorrow. I chose to create a collar because it is placed on the upper part of the chest and the throat, where many people feel their sorrow physically.
Places where people feel the pain
Sculpted sorrow in clay
I chose to work with paper yarn because I wanted my design to be able to dissolve. Grief from a broken heart should not last forever. My design should not only give space for the sorrow, but also bring hope and lead the way back to being happy again. I experimented with my collar being able to transform into something new and beautiful - something that could grow. I chose that the collar should contain yellow poppy seeds within the yarn, because yellow is the color of joy and seeds from poppies are very small.
Various collar designs
Experiment with seeds in paper yarn
Drawing of collar that are dissolving and flourishing
