yamila - KINTSUGI SPIDER-MAN: El Centinela de Porcelana

About the work:
The piece presented is part of a limited edition of 5 units worldwide, created digitally and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, ensuring its exclusivity and authenticity. On the back, all relevant details of the work, numbering, and signature are included.
Total dimensions: 60 x 80 cm
High-quality professional canvas 100% cotton, with maximum resistance to handling and external agents, from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy brand, satin finish. We guarantee a durable product with visual quality.
Technique: Giclée printing, recognized for its precision and lasting quality.

Certificate of authenticity
If the buyer wishes, the artist may provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be explicitly requested at the time of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools. She currently lives and works in Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to the sale, representation, and development of artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business vision with a deep artistic sensitivity.
This young Cuban talent has established himself in the field of digital art, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape, and the intimate relationship between women and their environment. His works subtly and visually powerfully address topics such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, always set within immersive, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez manages to blend classical influences with a modern language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The pictorial texture of her images, the masterful use of color, and the emotionally balanced composition position her work as a current artistic proposal of high aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation
The artwork will be carefully packaged by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, internally protected with bubble wrap to ensure its integrity during transit. Shipments are made through reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos España, depending on the destination and the most convenient option in each case.
The estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, although it may vary depending on the destination country.

This captivating sculpture features Spider-Man, the iconic New York hero, under a light of exquisite cultural fragility. The piece dresses him in two contrasting textures: the musculature of the torso in the traditional red and blue pattern of his suit, and the head and shoulders in a delicate motif of blue and white porcelain, evoking the prestigious Ming or Delft ceramics.
The technique of Kintsukuroi (repair with gold) is applied with masterful precision. The golden cracks not only separate the porcelain from the fabric but run throughout the entire figure, including the eyes and the spider emblem. The critic emphasizes the powerful allegory of responsibility and trauma embedded in this: the hero, who bears the weight of the world on his shoulders, is conceptually 'broken' by his losses, but his intrinsic value is multiplied by the visible repair with gold. This fusion of Western pop culture with Eastern philosophy of the beauty of imperfection transforms the action figure into an object of contemplation, a relic that celebrates how true strength arises from accepting and beautifying scars.

Reinterpreting Spider-Man through the philosophy of Kintsugi, the work directly confronts the inherent burden of heroic responsibility. The porcelain pattern, a fragile material of high historical value, symbolizes the vulnerability that lies beneath the hero's mask. Spider-Man is, in essence, a character defined by his losses and constant failures, forcing him into a perpetual moral and physical reconstruction.
Gold, which seals its 'ruptures,' is more than an ornament; it is a philosophical statement. The golden cracks are a visible map of its history of pain and overcoming, validating the idea that traumatic experience does not devalue, but rather increases the worth and beauty of being. The piece is a powerful reminder that authentic identity and human resilience are forged not in denying fragility, but in illuminating and honoring each wound that has allowed us to grow and continue our struggle with greater integrity.