Disarm
A Lullaby for the Broken The word "disarm" carries an older echo. In 1870, after the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War had together killed hundreds of thousands, writer and activist Julia Ward Howe addressed the mothers on both sides. In her proclamation she wrote: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." The word was already a plea before it became a movement. It is that history the name of this piece steps into.
Disarm tells a quietly devastating story about the fragile boundary between devastation and hope. Set against the echoes of conflict, this piece portrays a small girl clinging to the ultimate symbol of destruction. Yet in her embrace, the cold weapon ceases to be a threat. She closes her eyes, and in her stillness, the weight of history is held rather than carried forward.
This is a piece about human resilience: the belief that even amidst suffering and loss, we retain the right to dream of a gentler world. The red of the missile is not merely a warning. It is the color of a beating heart persisting through the silence of history.
Material and Haptic Atmosphere
The White: cast in matte white, smooth and almost weightless against the gravity of the subject. White here is not absence. It is the color of something set down. The Red: a deep, grounded hue, matte rather than glaring. Not neon. More like a scar that has healed yet remains. The contrast between the two is the piece: stillness holding something that was never still. The Base: Solid marble, hand-finished. Its weight anchors what the figure above it refuses to release.
Curating Emotion
The Contemplative Corner: Place near a window in late afternoon light, or beside books that have been read more than once. Long shadows create their own kind of quiet. A Dialogue with Time: Let it stand alone on a shelf, the way a considered thought stands alone in a long conversation.
Specifications
Dimensions: 3.5" x 3.5" x 10.2" (9.5 x 9.5 x 26 cm) Material: Matte white figure on a solid marble base, hand-finished Message: Make dreams, not war.
Size3.5 x 3.5 x 10.2 in (9.5 x 9.5 x 26 cm)
Materialsmatte white figure on a solid marble base, hand-finished
Secure US shipping, 7 to 14 business days
Once perfected, the work is encased in specialized shock-absorbent packaging and shipped via our secure international logistics partners to ensure the marble base arrives in pristine condition.
It takes time to travel well. Once it is in your hands, the weight of the base and the finish tend to make the wait feel worth it.
Changed your mind? We accept returns within 14 days of delivery.
Items must be unused and in original condition.
Custom-made or discounted orders are non-refundable.
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Every sculpture at The Soft Minimal is rooted in the vision of Manuela Guidarini (b. 1986, Italy), an Architect and Artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Manuela's work is a profound exploration of the relationship between geometry and mental stillness. Drawing heavily on her design background, her creations are deeply influenced by the interaction of geometrical grids, massing, and the artful balance of light and shadow.
She designs not for mere aesthetic display, but to induce the viewer in a state of calmness and stillness. For Manuela, fine art is the most natural way to communicate emotion and ensure every object we craft serves your emotional well-being and visual order.
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THE ARCHITECT'S INTENT
Manuela Guidarini
This is my attempt to explain why I made Disarm, and where it belongs in a longer conversation that has nothing to do with me.
There is a wall on First Avenue in New York, across the street from the United Nations, built in 1948. Carved into the stone is a line from the book of Isaiah: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares ... neither shall they learn war any more.” That wish is very old. And people have kept acting on it, gesture after gesture, generation after generation. A knotted revolver. A flower in a barrel. Guns turned into shovels. Shovels turned into trees. Weapons crushed and remade as instruments. I did not invent any of it. I only wanted to make a version quiet enough to live with, small enough for a shelf, still enough to look at every day.
I think about Disarm in terms of an arithmetic I cannot stop running in my head. Everything that goes into a weapon is taken from somewhere else: a house that does not get built, a meal that does not get cooked, a year of someone's life spent making something meant only to destroy. I am not accusing anyone of anything. It is simply bookkeeping. Disarm holds that thought: not the weapon fired, but the wish that it could be put down.
I keep a painting in mind that I return to more than any other. A mother tucks in two sleeping children. The father stands beside her, holding a newspaper full of bad news from somewhere far away. The children's eyes are closed. They do not know. I thought about that painting when I worked on the face of this figure. The eyes are closed. Not in fear. In rest. The face of someone who has set something down and is no longer carrying it.
What Disarm shows is a white matte figure, both arms holding a red missile close to its body, standing on a marble base. The missile is not small. It is not softened. It is still that shape. The figure holds it the way you hold something you have decided will not frighten you anymore. That posture is the whole point. The message of this piece, “make dreams, not war,” is not carved anywhere. It is the posture itself.
Simple forms. Bigger meanings. That’s what stays.
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