For this series, «Bearing» (all works 2014), the artist cast broken fragments of twigs in bronze, then recombined and fused them together to create longer forms. (artforum.com)
The Institution of the Eucharist It's hard to understand what they assume He means by either deed or word: to break a fragment off a loaf and in the gloom of candlelight insist each of them take what He then claims, as they receive it, is no longer bread Mary was asked to find but something else now. (faith.org.uk)
Some corals can reproduce like grafted plant clippings through budding or fragmentation, when broken fragments regenerate and form new colonies. (discovermagazine.com)