Betrayal, Reflection & Purposeful Growth — A One-of-One Mosaic Artwork

.🍎 Poisoned Apple Original Mosaic

Price: $2,950

Medium: Ceramic tiles, glass highlights, sealed coloured grout with inlaid glitter

Size: 60cm tall × 50cm wide

Frame: Bespoke rustic timber frame made by Buzzword Creative especially for Poisoned Apple

Finish: Mounted, sealed, framed, and ready to hang

Shipping: Custom-built pine box with a magical Shimmer & Whimsy unboxing experience

🍎 A Mosaic About What Betrayal Leaves Behind

Some artworks are made to decorate a wall.

Others are made to hold a turning point.

Poisoned Apple is an original mosaic artwork about betrayal, reflection, and the quiet strength that forms after trust has been broken. At first glance, it is vivid, glossy, and almost tempting — a red apple touched by green poison, its surface twisted into haunting patterns, its shine interrupted by pain.

But the longer you look, the more the story changes.

This is not simply an artwork about being hurt. It is about what happens after. The pause. The questions. The painful wisdom. The moment you realise that what happened to you does not get to define the rest of you.

Poisoned Apple is about turning the wound into awareness — and awareness into growth.

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✨ The Story Behind Poisoned Apple

Once, an apple hung high in the orchard, red and radiant, catching every sunbeam. It was proud of its shine, confident in its sweetness, and eager to be shared.

Then a hand came.

Gentle. Careful. Seemingly kind.

The apple trusted.

But the hand was not true.

It dipped the apple into green, corrosive poison. The apple’s skin twisted into streaks. Faint skull-like patterns appeared across its surface. Tears ran down its glossy face. Pain flared. Confusion followed. The orchard felt colder.

For a long moment, the apple trembled.

Then slowly, it began to reflect.

Why did I trust so quickly?

What did I miss?

How can I protect myself and those I care for in the future?

In that reflection, the apple discovered something powerful: the poison did not take away its value. It did not erase its sweetness. It left lessons.

Not all growth is gentle. Some growth comes from seeing clearly for the first time.

🧩 Made Slowly, Piece by Piece

Poisoned Apple is created using ceramic tiles, glass highlights, sealed coloured grout, and inlaid glitter designed to catch the eye as the light moves across the piece.

The ceramic tiles give the artwork its structure and emotional weight. The glass highlights bring moments of sharpness, shine, and tension. The coloured grout becomes part of the storytelling rather than just the space between the tiles — guiding the viewer through the apple’s wounds, movement, and emotional atmosphere.

The inlaid glitter is subtle but intentional. It does not overwhelm the piece. It appears in flashes, like memory catching in the light — beautiful, uncomfortable, impossible to ignore.

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🎥 Watch the Making of Poisoned Apple

This original artwork includes the full story and making-of process, allowing collectors to connect not only with the finished piece, but with the emotional and physical journey behind it.

The making-of video shows the transformation from concept to completed mosaic — the cutting, placing, grouting, sealing, and framing that bring the apple’s story into its final form.

This gives the collector something rare: not just an artwork, but a documented creative process.

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🪵 Framed by Buzzword Creative

The original Poisoned Apple mosaic is mounted in a bespoke rustic timber frame made by Buzzword Creative especially for this piece.

The frame is not an afterthought. It is part of the artwork’s presence.

Its rustic timber warmth contrasts beautifully with the apple’s poisoned glow, grounding the piece while allowing the reds, greens, glass highlights, and glittered grout to shimmer forward.

The artwork arrives mounted, framed, sealed, and ready to hang, so it can move straight from its pine shipping box to its place in your home, studio, gallery wall, or private collection.

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💔 For the Collector Who Understands Emotional Art

This is a piece for someone who does not want empty beauty.

It is for the person who has lived through betrayal and still chose to grow.

For the person who values symbolism, story, and emotional depth.

For the collector who wants original art with presence, not just polish.

For the home where artwork is allowed to mean something.

At 60cm tall × 50cm wide, Poisoned Apple has enough scale to hold attention, while still feeling intimate enough for a personal space. It can become a powerful focal point in an entryway, reading nook, creative studio, bedroom, private gallery wall, or emotional healing space.

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🎁 The Shimmer & Whimsy Unboxing Experience

Because this is a one-of-one original artwork, the arrival should feel as meaningful as the purchase.

Poisoned Apple is shipped in its own custom-built pine box for protection, care, and presentation. Inside, imagine the soft shimmer of gold tissue, the richness of a thick gold ribbon, and the feeling of opening something rare, personal, and deeply considered.

This is not a mass-produced item arriving in a plain box.

It is a collector’s moment.

A little ceremony.

A piece of Shimmer & Whimsy House arriving safely at your door.

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🌟 Why Poisoned Apple Is a Collectible Original

🍎 One-of-one original mosaic

Only one original Poisoned Apple exists.

🧩 Made with ceramic tiles and glass highlights

A tactile, light-catching surface with true mosaic depth.

✨ Coloured grout with inlaid glitter

The grout is part of the artwork’s emotional movement and shimmer.

🪵 Custom rustic timber frame by Buzzword Creative

Made especially for this original piece.

🎥 Includes story and making-of depth

A documented creative journey that adds meaning and collectibility.

📦 Custom pine box shipping experience

Designed for safe arrival and a magical unboxing.

💛 Emotionally rich investment artwork

Created for collectors who want beauty, symbolism, and story.

🛒 Bring Poisoned Apple Into Your Collection

Poisoned Apple is not a soft story, but it is a powerful one.

It speaks of trust, harm, reflection, boundaries, and growth. It holds the complicated beauty of becoming wiser without becoming bitter.

For the right collector, this artwork will not simply hang on a wall.

It will become a mirror.

A reminder.

A quiet declaration that even after poison, purpose can grow.

Original Poisoned Apple Mosaic Artwork — $2,950

Mounted, framed, sealed, ready to hang, and shipped in a custom-built pine box.

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