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A Row of Hearts, Pink and White Bleeding Hearts

Pink and white heart-shaped flowers hang in a row from a thin arching stem against a soft, blurred green background of leaves and a few pink blooms. The image has a painterly, brush-stroked texture. Three lines of white script text, a quote attributed to Simone de Beauvoir, sit in the lower center.

A bleeding heart stem is one of the few flowers whose shape explains itself: a row of pink and white hearts hanging from a single arching line. This piece shows it sharp against a soft, out-of-focus green field. The brush-like texture across the petals and leaves gives it a hand-worked look that a plain flower photograph does not have. A short white script quotation sits at the lower centre, so the image also carries words. Someone who wants a floral piece with some feeling in it, rather than a generic bouquet, has a reason to stop here.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski