Sweet Caroline's Hundred Hearts
© 1998 Ginger Henry Geyer
glazed porcelain with gold and white gold
box & Lid: 4 ¾" x 7 ½" x 11 ½"
bag: 2 ¼" x 5 ½" x 9 ½"
In elementary school, Valentine's Day was a legitimate excuse for gorging on candy and fru-fru. Shoeboxes were converted into valentine mailboxes by layers of stuff, gussied up like some Rococo reliquary, full of fatuous promises friendship and everlasting love.
A friend asked me to make a heart-themed sculpture for his daughter's birthday, which falls on Valentine's Day. He wanted to personalize the conversation hearts, using Spanish words on several of them. We had a good time pairing up words for the front and back of a big bagful of hearts--100 of them--to show the "abundance of heart" ....as in
The hearts hit all points in life. Here's a few examples:
| Nadie/Todos |
Old Dog/New Tricks |
| Make Up/Make Out |
Amiga/Destino |
| Baby/Maybe |
Dirty Mind/Clean Heart |
| EZ to Love/UR the Best |
Frio/Pasion |
| Heart Ache/Stomach Ache |
Fax me/Call Later |
| Angustia/Carino |
You Are Loved/So Much |
Writing on hearts is nothing new. See Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10, Romans 2:15,
2 Corinthians 3:3
