"He Heals the Broken Hearted"

Measuring 3-feet by 5-feet, this nearly 55-pound mosaic artwork required more than 85 man-hours to complete and was created during the Fall 2025 inaugural semester of Heart for the Arts Studio Arts, in collaboration with the congregation of Kissimmee Christian Church.

The red glass tiles that form the broken heart were added by members of the KCC congregation on December 7, 2025, following a message delivered by Pastor Shawn Grant (recording available below). Each red glass tile represents something that is—or once was—broken in someone’s life and has been surrendered to Christ: a burden, a loss, a struggle, a sin, or a story still being redeemed.

Together, these individual pieces form a single heart held by Christ. In this mosaic, the idea of Kintsugi becomes a visual metaphor for redemption. The gold “cracks” do not deny the reality of our suffering, sin, or loss. Instead, they reveal that Christ meets us precisely in our broken places. Through His suffering, death on the cross, and resurrection, they proclaim God’s grace and mercy is powerful enough to fill those broken places and make them shine as part of our testimony.

Through the collaboration with the members of the KCC congregation, this mosaic becomes not just an image, but a collective act of faith and worship—many stories, many wounds, gathered into one offering.

This mosaic stands as a reminder that healing is not always about returning to what once was. Sometimes it is about becoming something new—marked by grace, strengthened by love, and made radiant through Christ.

May all who encounter this artwork be reminded that no broken place is beyond redemption, and that in the hands of Jesus, even our deepest fractures can become beautifully whole.