Sticky Bonds

Lost Loves, Romances, and Families in the 21st Century.

A Lost Love Art Exhibit

An artist creates a sculpture when she is broken-hearted.

Art galleries don't usually feature exhibitions based on lost love, but the Melbourne Art Rooms (MARS) is doing just that.

As reported by Sally Bennett in The Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia), dated February 13, 2012, the gallery is featuring two displays exploring the meaning of love; one of these is entitled Unrequited, a marble sculpture of an angel's wing (cupid?) - not the angel, just a wing - and beside it is the quiver, from the fallen angel, containing one arrow.

The sculpture is more than 5 feet long and weighs almost 200 pounds. The artist, from Sydney, Australia, is Jane Valentine (really!); she created it over the last year while grieving the loss of a love. Although she offers no specifics of her circumstances, she is quoted in the article as saying, "To lose love is a very hard thing to do, regardless of what the story is; whether you're heartbroken over a love gone wrong, or a parent dying, or a child dying. It's the hardest thing that I've ever had to go through."

The sculpture was carved from marble in Michelangelo's quarry in Italy. It can be purchased for $90,000 ($$ Australian).

 



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Nancy Kalish, Ph.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of Lost & Found Lovers.

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