Bleeding Hearts
by Mary Jane Armstrong
Title
Bleeding Hearts
Artist
Mary Jane Armstrong
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A digital image, minimally enhanced, of a thin branch with several bleeding heart blossoms sprinkled wtih water droplets from a rainy day becomes an inspirational piece of art symbolizing the dark night that follows a broken heart.
I took a picture of this flower called a "bleeding heart". It's a pretty flower standing out from others becasue of its heart-shape blossoms. However, when processing the image, I noticed the water droplets left over from the morning rain, the dark background, and the heartshaped blossoms causing me to pause and reflect. And, then it dawned on me, this image reminds me of my families' pain and the pain of close friends. The hearts, sprinkled with tears, line up and grieve the losted loved one (the mom, the grandmother, the wiife, the friend, or the son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin). It also dawned on me, the loved one is still apart of the others; as the branch, their memory continues to tie them together as one.
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April 9th, 2013
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