THE HEART SPEAKS
A poetic journey through the art of Tiffany Pippin
Each heart holds a secret. A bruise. A loss. A memory wrapped in silence. In The Heart Speaks, artist Tiffany Pippin cracks open the human experience, inviting us to listen—not with our ears, but with our souls.
This collection is not merely art—it is a tactile illustration of the human experience. It conveys a complex and deeply personal story without speaking a word. With paint, gold, leather, and thread, Pippin reaches into the language of emotion, giving form to the phrases we use when words fall short: Heart Ache, The Broken Heart, Heart of Stone. These idioms, so often tossed around casually, are here made sacred, slowed down, and examined.
The series was born from grief. In 2022, Pippin lost her mother to COVID—a rupture that sent her spiraling into deep personal excavation. What emerged was not just sorrow, but a hunger to understand: her past, her pain, the beliefs she inherited, and the self she had been protecting all along. This work is the result of that reckoning—one part mourning, one part alchemy.
Heart Ache, the first piece she began and the last to finish, is a portrait of unraveling and survival. In The Broken Heart, gold fills the cracks, honoring wounds as sacred history. Heart of Stone reveals the weight we carry when we protect ourselves too well. Eat Your Heart Out is a visceral goodbye to false validation, and The Caged Heart asks us to consider who holds the key—and whether we’ve forgotten that it’s always been in our own hands.
Pippin’s work is shaped by her background in graphic design, and illustration. She plays with texture and symbol, realism and abstraction, until what’s left is less a style than a signature. Her hearts are not neat—they are alive. They beat with questions, ache with memory, and shimmer with the beauty of being seen.
This is an exhibition for anyone who has carried grief and still loves. For anyone who has been broken and chose to gather the pieces. For anyone who wonders if their pain means something—it does.
The Heart Speaks is an invitation: to sit with your own story. To honor the scars. To listen—because your heart has been speaking, too.