VASE

“Women are vases,” Emma Willemse said when discussing her painting “More Die Of Heartbreak.”

The vase I chose for my Symbol Dictionary in particular looks to me like an upside-down womb*. Expect to see more drawings of this one.

Emma Willemse

More Die of Heartbreak

Oil on glass and found pot fragments

2005

*Not the neat schematics found in the books. More like the actual, physical organ, here made from ceramic in stead of muscle and blood.

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