Remedy - Front

This is the 76th piece in my Industrial Heart collection, entitled, Remedy.

Like most of my Industrial Hearts, this piece starts with an anatomically correct human heart made from polymer clay - the base. With all of the components of a real human heart, it has also been made to look metallic and Industrial with its panelling and rivets. Gears, metal findings, and other various things are also added.

The entire thing has been antiqued with black acrylics to give it an aged and used feel. As always, there is a stainless steel loop in the back which will be attached to a keyring style jump ring and strung onto a necklace.

This particular piece has inspired by this e-mail:

My girlfriend has TOF [tetralogy of fallot] which is a congenital heart condition where she had a hole in her septum, and a few valves were messed up. She had surgery when she was a baby and another when she was 2 years old. She nearly died because her heart rejected one of the valves and swelled up, and she was in the ICU for 19 days with her chest cut open. During that time, her kidneys also failed. I just wanted to give you a little back story because I don't know really how I would want her industrial heart to look.

Anyway, she's 17, and she's going to have open heart surgery this summer because her heart has outgrown her childhood surgery… you know, I feel kind of helpless not being able to do anything for her. She's been in a lot of pain in her heart lately, and I feel like I can't do anything… and I'm always the kind that wants to make things better. I try not to let her see that because I want to be strong for her.

I think it speaks for itself - he is basically like her bandaid... always there to make her feel better, safe, and comforted.

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