installation: donna vogel

My sister passed away, very suddenly, very unexpectedly. I am a jewelry artist and not a wordsmith. Trying to describe the weight of my grief was nearly impossible for me. Grief is definitely an emotion that the body manifests physically...a boulder on my shoulders, a fist clenching my heart. In the days following the news of her death, I kept "seeing" a collapsing heart, with a teardrop shaped hole. The heart had a caption "How can loss weigh so very much?"

Hand-cut and forged, flame painted copper wall hanging.

Approximately 3 1/2 ' tall