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What is LOVE? How does Love FEEL? How do you SHOW Love? Love can be OVERLOOKED, viewed as cliche, not taken seriously. In a world of terrorism, financial crisis, fast-paced living, it can be forgotten. In this installation, I want the viewer to PERSONALLY, quietly, SACREDLY take in the Love... feel good, feel loved, feel CONTENT, feel happy and walk away able to OPEN their own HEART and give it to the next person and the next person and the next. This work is about loving yourself, loving others and loving PASSIONATELY. What would the world look like if everyone consciously gave each other love? Using painting, GOLD leaf, handmade papers, INSPIRATIONAL quotes and mixed media, each piece is embedded with LAYERS of love with the message... YOU ARE LOVED -- PASS IT ON.

You are Loved Painting

Acrylic/Gold Leaf 36 x 36 inches

Layers and layers of painted words about love, quotations, inspirations which embed the painting with positive energy about love and connection

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Rag Rug

Indian Ikat Fabric, Stitchery, Buttons, hand sewn 4 x 6 feet

XOXOX is the old-fashioned way of saying I Love You

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You are Loved Mirror DETAIL

Detail of You are Loved Mirror 16 x 40 inches
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You are Loved Mirror

16 x 40 inches

Forty different positive adjectives are reflected in the mirror so when the viewer looks in the mirror, they are filled with self esteem and confidence and love

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Heart Painting

Acrylic layers 18 x 18 inches

Layers of paint slightly oozing words like love, everchanging, curious, accepting, ravishing, wanting, openhearted, everlasting under bleeding heart

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Love of Self Mirror

Nail Polish on Mirror 16 x 24 inches

The time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome and say, sit here, eat. You will love again with stranger who was yourself...

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Love Paper Canvas

Markers and Ink 16 x 16 inches

Love is not blind. It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the Heart.

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You are Loved Painting

Acrylic, Colored Pencil, Marker 36 x 36 inches

Lines of inspirational quotes about love over layers of love

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You are Loved Collage

Paper Collage and Acrylic on Wood Ð 12 x 12 inches

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Gold Heart Wallpaper Painting

Acrylic/Gold Leaf 18 x 18 inches

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Aching Heart Painting

Acrylic 18 x 18 inches

(used for You are Loved - Pass It On Project)

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Love Wallpaper Painting

Acrylic, Wood Block, Beads 30 x 30 inches

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Acrylic 6 x 6 inches

To love oneself is the beginning of a live-long romance.

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Ethnic Fabrics, Sewing 16 x 16 inches

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice but for those who love, time is eternity.

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Collage

Marker, Paint, Paper 6 x 6 inches

A happy marriage is a long converstation which always seems too short.

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Sewing 16 x 16 inches

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Ethnic Fabric, Sewing 16 x 16 inches

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Love Quote Painting

Acrylic, Layers of Verse, Gold Leaf 30 x 30 inches

And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong...

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Acrylic, Paper, Gold Leaf, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

Don't try to figure this out. Loves' work looks absurd but trying to find meaning will hide it more. Silence.

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Gold Leaf, Brown Paper, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

Relish love in your old age. Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating.

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Sewn Collage

Acrylic on Rice Paper, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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Sewn Collage

Acrylic on Paper, Gold Leaf, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

Passion. You are loved. Loved you are.

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Love Wallpaper Painting

Acrylic, Wood Block, Beads 30 x 30 inches

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

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You are Loved Collage

Paper, Acrylic 12 x 12 inches

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Gold Heart Collage

Collage, Gold Leaf, Paper 6 x 6 inches

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Fabric, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

Perfect love is rare indeed. For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of theh very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

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Detail of Collage Mirror

Brown Paper, Paint and Marker 18 x 18 inches

Collection of love poems

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Sewn Collage

Paper, Marker, Collage Papers, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

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You are Loved Collage

Decorative Paper 12 x 12 inches

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Sewn Collage

Paper, Marker, Decorative Papers, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

If you love something, let it go. What comes back to you is truly yours and what doesn't never was.

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You are Loved Painting

Acrylic, Nib of Pen 18 x 18 inches

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Sewn Collage

Marker, Paper, Gold Leaf, Sewing 6 x 6 inches

There is only one happiness in life. To love and be loved.

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Love Quote Collage

Marker, Paper, Acrylic on Wood 16 x 16 inches

Love is of all passions the strongest for it attaches simaltaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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Monoprint Collage

Monoprint, Fabric, Sewing 6 x 9 inches

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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Gold Heart Collage

Collage, Gold Leaf, Paper 6 x 6 inches

You yourself, as much as anyboy in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

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