The Mourning Fawn
The Mourning Fawn carries all the sorrow you are unable to bear. In 2024, researchers Yuta Kanaya and Nobuyuki Kawai of Nagoya University published a study inScientific Reports titled “Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation.” Their findings were simple and striking: when participants wrote down their angry thoughts about a provoking event and then physically discarded the paper, by crumpling or shredding it, their anger significantly decreased. When they kept the paper, it did not. The act of transferring emotion onto paper and then disposing of it gave the brain a clear signal: this has been processed. It can go.
The Mourning Fawn Guardian Monster extends that ritual. Write your worry, grief, resentment, or fear on a small scrap of paper. Fold it tight. Place it inside his mouth. He becomes the vessel of disposal.His hollow body becomes the site of transformation.What you cannot metabolize alone, he symbolically digests. You are not denying the feeling.You are externalizing it.You are choosing where it lives. Where tenderness grows teeth, even your anger becomes food.
Earthenware, glazes, ready to hang on your wall
Size: 8.25" x 5" x 5"
Original design created in 2022
