Sweet Slumbers (Mother and Baby Sleeping Sculpture)

Sweet Slumbers-Ceramic sculpture of motherhood with baby

There is a gentle silence here.
A suspended moment that smells like a beginning.

She rests,
her body becoming a home,
a shelter,
a world.

Her belly is living earth,
a soft sky crossed by small flights,
where life can rest without fear.

And above her,
a child sleeps.

So small,
so full of future.

This is a handmade ceramic motherhood sculpture,
where a sleeping child rests on a blue world,
a symbol of love, protection, and new life.

It does not hold tight,
it welcomes.
It does not cling,
it protects

An ancient gesture,
speaking of love, protection, and presence.

A gift.

For a mother who has just been born,
together with her child. A unique gift for a new mother, a symbolic mother and child sculpture to celebrate the beginning of life.

To remind her, every day,
hat everything is already there:
strength, tenderness,
her whole world.

Technical notes

The sculpture is hand-modeled with a pinkish-toned clay.
The girl’s skin remains in natural clay, while the colored details are enriched with engobes and ceramic glazes.
I applied glossy and satin enamels

The skin is left in natural clay, while the coloured parts have been painted with different hues of engobes (slips) in order to create delicate nuances and plays of colour.
The little face is as small as a hazelnut. The curls are applied one by one and are made of delicate clay strips rolled on themselves.

The sculpture underwent two firings.
The sculpture underwent two firings at 980°

Misure: altezza cm11 larghezza cm14, lunghezza cm24

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Una maternità che diventa mondo: una donna accoglie, protegge e sogna, mentre la vita riposa sopra di lei.