Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Book of Symbols, Day 62: Rose

Day 62: Rose, gouache, 6x8 in., Otto


Above all, roses signify love, in all its earthly and heavenly hues:  what or who we love in the present, the one we loved and have lost, and the longing for something nameless--embodied in the form and color of roses, and in the perfume that "suddenly...lies on the air like fame" (Rilke, 149)--that both beckons and mysteriously eludes us.
- ARAS

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