ARTIST SHARON BEREBICHEZ "SPILLS THE TEA"

Artist Sharon Berebichez / Instagram: @sharonbere

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Every week we invite you for a peak behind the scene to see the things, people and places that inspire us. 

This week we take you to our dear friend artist Sharon Berebichez's latest solo gallery show "UNSTABLE GROUND".  Drawing from her Borderline Motherhood series, Berebichez explores memory, care and emotional inheritance. Using thrifted ceramic tea sets, she builds sculptural compositions that balance delicacy and tension. Painted, embroidered and assembled, the works evoke systems of care that feel both tender and unstable, poised between harmony and rupture.

There are certain truths in life that sit so deeply within us that we forget they are not universal, and for Thomas and me, one of those truths has always been the quiet, unwavering presence of a mother’s unconditional love.

Usha (Michou's Mom), Gloria (Thomas's Mom) & Edward (Thomas' Dad) at our Wedding 

It is the kind of love that builds the backbone of who you become—offering strength without question and grounding without force—while at the same time giving you wings, the confidence and unseen permission to fly. And yet, like so many things we are born into, we take it for granted. I have come to believe that it was my divine intention—not by chance but by design—that I would meet and marry someone who was also completely shaped by that same depth of maternal love.

Thomas is, in every sense, a man raised in it, and together we built a life anchored in that shared foundation.

Sheinelle Jones Book Launch Through Mom's Eyes in AMAZON

Serendipity, however, has a way of revealing these truths when we least expect it. One morning, as I sat quietly at my desk with YouTube playing in the background, I found myself unexpectedly moved to tears while listening to Sheinelle Jones speak on The Today Show about motherhood and her book Through Mom’s Eyes, reflecting on what it means to see the world through that lens of care, sacrifice, and devotion. It stirred something deeply personal in me, a quiet remembering of what we have always known but rarely pause to acknowledge.

"Unbalanced" W8"xH16"xD6" Price: $3,600 USD

That same evening, I arrived at Sharon Berebichez’s exhibition Unstable Ground, drawn there by a message she had sent earlier that day, and found myself immersed in an entirely different yet equally powerful narrative. Her work, rooted in her experience as the daughter of a mother with borderline personality disorder, explores the fragile terrain of memory, care, and emotional inheritance, revealing a world where love exists but often in tension with instability and absence. Standing there, I was struck by the profound contrast: a morning filled with the abundance of maternal love, and an evening reflecting on its fragility.

"3 Teapots Unraveled" W37"xH58" Price: $12,000

And then, almost impossibly, another layer revealed itself—within her paintings, the teacups carried patterns that felt intimately familiar, the very same style and sensibility that both my mother and Thomas’s mother had in their own homes. It stopped me. Because I immediately thought of the Christmas Table I had set for Thomas’s mother, where I layered those very plate patterns with our Murano glasses, unknowingly echoing a visual language that would later appear again, reframed through Sharon’s work.

Left: "Spilled Tea II" W20"xH16x Price: $3,100 USD

Right: "Spilled Tea I" W20"xH16" Price: $3,100 USD

Two opposite emotional inheritances, yet connected through objects, memory, and design. That is the quiet truth—we are all reflections, shaped either by what we were given or by what we longed for, but always drawn back to love like moths to a flame. In that moment, Thomas and I found ourselves doing something rare—looking inward with deep gratitude for the love we received and recognizing how profoundly it shaped us. What makes it even more extraordinary is that our mothers, who grew up worlds apart, would have loved each other, sharing the same essence of warmth, care, and generosity, adding yet another layer to our story.

"Red Teacups" W13"xH121"xD13" Price: $5800 USD

As Mother’s Day approaches, I find myself reflecting not just on our own experience, but on all forms of motherhood—the ones that nurture, the ones that struggle, the ones we wish for, and the ones we become in our own way. Because motherhood is not just a role, it is an energy, a force, a legacy that lives within all of us.

So this year, I invite you to reflect on your own story, to honor it, to feel it, and most importantly to love it, because whether it is rooted in abundance or absence, it has shaped you into who you are today—and that alone is something worth celebrating.

This is our #MotherStory what's yours?

Have a great weekend!

MICHOU says "MAKE ART NOT WAR"