The Resignation of Justice
- Artist: Joyce Carreira
- Artwork: The Resignation of Justice
- Medium: Bronze sculpture
- Size: 30x27x24 cm | Total height with black granite base: 49 cm
- Limited Edition
- Usually cast per order, please enquire
She once stood unshakable—sword raised, scales balanced, eyes covered in the name of fairness. Lady Justice, the enduring symbol of law, equity, and unwavering truth. For centuries, we looked to her as the embodiment of order, summoning her presence in times of doubt and conflict. But ideals, like stone, wear down with time.
In The Resignation of Justice, we encounter her no longer upright, but collapsed. The blade lies dull at her side, the scales no longer balanced but skewed by the long weight of systemic failure. Her blindfold has slipped—or perhaps was never truly secure—and her face now bears the weariness of disillusionment.
This is not an accusation, but a dirge. Not the murder of Justice, but her surrender. The piece mourns not what she was meant to be, but what she has become—eroded not by a single act, but by years of compromise, silence, and slow decay. Her body does not fall in defeat, but in resignation.
This sculpture does not demand answers. It asks a question far more difficult: What becomes of a society when even its highest ideals no longer believe in themselves? In bronze, sorrow is cast. In stillness, truth is revealed. And in her fall, we are asked to reckon with our own.
