Estrangement of the Heart - a photo on Flickriver

            ...formerly titled:  "Hommage à l’anti-Saint-Valentin"

I have so many hearts in my Flickr photostream.  (In fact, the Big Heart of Art just hit 100,000 views yesterday!) 

Matters of the heart are not always clean and pure and simple.  Some are not covered by any Valentine's day card.  With this in mind, I created a few images representing less desirable states of the heart that we all get caught up in from time to time.

Need for a New Title

After some insightful comments from you, my flickr friends, I wanted to change the title of this piece to help distinguish:
 • the feelings (states of the heart) symbolized here (excluded, isolated, alone)
 • the feelings symbolized in the subsequent heart image (trapped, imprisoned, helpless)

I had already decided to name the other piece Prisoner of the Heart, which I thought captured it well.  Trying to decide on the right title for this piece, I wanted it to clearly describe and distinguish this piece from the other, while still have a parallel phrasing (since the two images do form a group...)

How I Chose The New Title

I remembered of a Valentine's Day poem I wrote many years ago  for my (now late) spouse.  Particularly this excerpt:

 ⋮
 being apart
 that's a splash of cold reality
 it's estrangement of the heart
 it's the burning of great art!
 ⋮ 

and Estrangement of the Heart became the obvious title.
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Taken on: February 14, 2011

Tags:

heart

valentines day

trapped heart

visual mashup

valentine

cage

qthomsbower

estrangement

excluded

isolated

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Sets appears in: • All Hearts • Hearts more » • Valentine's Day • Selected Works II • 2011 « less

Groups appears in: • HEARTS all HEARTS • (Digital) Paint Creations more » • Visual Mashups « less

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