another collage and watercolor.
The Sacred Heart (also called the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is one of the most famous religious devotions meant to represent and emphasize the unmitigated love, compassion, and long-suffering of the heart of Christ towards humanity.
I found this image of an ancient world map (Nova Universi Orbis Descriptio (1531) by French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé) in a book I had laying around the studio. The heart-shaped world made me think of the unmitigated love the natural world offers, as well as the suffering it endures at the hands of humanity. Thus, today’s project: the Sacred Heart of Gaia (Greek Goddess of Earth or Mother Earth).