Beyond the Porcelain Skin
- Karenina Fabrizzi
- Jun 17
- 2 min read
In this new body of work, Beyond the Porcelain Skin, a quiet yet powerful narrative unfolds through richly detailed paintings where opulent blooms emerge from intricately adorned vessels.
Each composition pays homage to the timeless elegance of both nature and human artistry. These vessels, crafted in spirit from the luminous patterns of Portuguese azulejos, the serene sophistication of Chinese antiquities, the refined geometry of Dutch Delftware, and the sinuous lines of Louis XV porcelain, are not just ornamental.
They are visual poems: meditations on beauty, fragility, and the enduring imprint of cultural memory.
The flowers, lush and unrestrained, seem to defy the stillness of their containers, rising in a kind of silent rebellion, alive, ephemeral, and uncontainable.
This contrast between the delicacy of the vessel and the vitality of the bloom becomes a metaphor for the human condition itself. We, too, are containers, bodies crafted with grace and vulnerability, shaped by time, emotion, and experience. Our outer forms may be admired for their elegance or fragility, but it is what we carry within that gives us dimension: our inner gardens of longing, resilience, memory, and silent transformation.
In Beyond the Porcelain Skin, the surface is never the end of the story. These vessels, like people, invite a second gaze, a contemplative, lingering gaze that asks us to look beyond aesthetics and into meaning. Each painting is an intimate dialogue between what is seen and what is felt. The porcelain skin is smooth, but within lies something wild and unknowable.
These works become sanctuaries of emotion and reflection, spaces where form meets feeling and beauty becomes a vessel for truth.
This series ultimately explores what it means to be alive through the act of containment and release: to bloom, to hold, to endure, and to be shaped by what we carry.
The still life tradition is reimagined here, not as static representations of domestic beauty, but as living symbols of our own emotional architecture.
Every curve, every petal, every crack in the glaze speaks of a lived history, a quiet strength, a hidden depth.
Beyond the Porcelain Skin is an invitation to look inward, to consider the sacredness of what we hold and the silent grace with which we carry it.
These paintings are not only visual compositions but soul reflections—evocative reminders that to be human is to be both vessel and garden, container and bloom, fragile and endlessly alive.
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