Mounted on Pinolite Magnesite · Porcelain · Self-made Transparent Craquelé Glaze · Overglaze Painting · Shellac Technique · 24ct Gold
There is a kind of love that does not ask you to stay close.
It loves by lifting.
By giving you enough distance to see yourself clearly. By reminding you that tenderness does not always arrive as warmth. Sometimes it arrives as mountain air. Cold, pure, and so transparent that nothing false can survive inside it.
Alpine Blossom belongs to the world of light, stone, silence, and sparse beauty. She appears as an alpine flower goddess, related to the Salige women of old Alpine legends. Beings who lived close to the mountains and carried a wisdom that did not need to explain itself to be true.
The mountain does not comfort us by becoming soft.
It remains stone.
It asks us to become still enough to hear what exists beneath the noise. To stand where the air becomes thinner, where distraction falls away, and where we meet the part of ourselves that cannot be negotiated with.
Her gentian carries this memory.
Its blue is not merely the colour of a flower. It is the blue of distance, clarity, and inner gathering. A blue so intense it feels almost celestial. Gentian grows close to the ground, yet carries the vastness of the sky within it. Wild, resilient, and deeply rooted, it reminds us that elevation does not require us to abandon the earth.
Her edelweiss carries another form of strength.
Purity without innocence. Courage without spectacle. Protection without possession.
It represents a love that does not hold you down in order to keep you near. A love that respects what you are becoming. A love that lifts, honours, and allows you to stand in your own quiet magnificence.
Her transparent craquelé glaze moves across her body like glacier ice or the first cold of morning. Fine fractures hold the memory of frost, altitude, and time. Yet the surface remains open to light. The gold shines through it, radiant and uncovered, as though something sacred has risen from inside her and reached the surface.
The flowers are not merely painted onto her.
Through the shellac technique, the edelweiss emerges gently from her body. Raised, tangible, present. The gentian has been applied more fully so that the natural structure of the plant remains alive. Nature is not used as decoration here. It is inscribed into her as memory.
Alpine Blossom reminds us that clarity is not coldness.
Distance is not abandonment.
And rising does not mean believing yourself to be above others. It means reaching the place within yourself where your truth can finally breathe.
Sometimes self-love is softness.
Sometimes it is the courage to leave the valley of what is familiar and walk towards the height that has been calling you. To stop shrinking your vision so that others can remain comfortable. To trust that the wildest part of you was never asking to be tamed, only rooted deeply enough to bloom.
To live with this piece is to live with a reminder that your inner world deserves light, air, and sacred distance.
That you are allowed to protect what is pure without hiding it.
That you are allowed to rise without leaving yourself behind.
Alpine Blossom carries the love that lifts.
Not away from life.
Deeper into its clearest truth.
