“Bloom, Bruise, Rot” is a ceramic faucet and bird bath that meditates on the instability of beauty, the vulnerability of the body, and the slow choreography of decay. Expanding on the symbolic language of vanitas, the work considers how beauty, mortality, and deterioration can inhabit functional domestic objects activated by use, touch, water, and time.

The bird bath introduces a layer of fragility and transience; an offering to living creatures that may arrive briefly, drink, bathe, and disappear. The piece functions simultaneously as ornament and ruin in progress; a site where softness, leakage, and erosion are not failures of form but central conditions of being alive.

Hovering between faucet, shrine, relic, and wound, the piece reflects on how beauty persists through decay and how deterioration itself can become ornamental, seductive, and alive.