~About This Piece
This work reflects the delicate balance at the heart of true elegance — the way beauty can rise from imperfection, and how grace endures even under the weight of expectation.
Seventh in The Oracle of Feathers series, this piece features a vibrant blue bird crowned in gold, perched atop an ornate golden high‑heeled shoe. Each element carries layered meaning, weaving together themes of aspiration, vulnerability, and renewal. The crowned bird embodies dignity, wisdom, and the quiet strength of self‑possession, while its vivid feathers evoke depth, serenity, and inner truth. The golden shoe represents the ideals and pressures placed upon the feminine — symbols of beauty, status, and societal expectation that are often elegant in appearance yet uncomfortable in reality. Its bow adds a note of grace and divine femininity, even as the form itself hints at the tension between presentation and lived experience. Inside the shoe, the ORACLE label suggests the search for meaning beneath the surface of what we are asked to wear, carry, or become. Resting beneath the vamp, a cracked egg symbolizes emergence, potential, and the tender beginnings of self‑definition. A glimpse inside hints at something precious rising — not in spite of the pressures surrounding it, but through them, because of them.