Fall in Love

Mixed media

Falling in love is the moment you realise your existence has become intertwined with another, like every part of a garden coming into bloom. It is a collision of pain and sweetness, where each fragment of breaking apart is met with the pull of a garden in full flower. It is the moment your heart becomes a butterfly and takes flight on a romantic breeze, while other butterflies dance inside you. The red cardinal stands for love taking wing. The piece draws on Rumi's line, ‘I arrived at a place where even love knows not’, and its timeless sense of what love is. The monochrome treatment speaks to love's power to suspend time, letting you find beauty even in the moments of fragmentation, the way an old photograph holds a moment still.