The Flower of Love

The Red Rose, to show love.
Deep love, passion, devotion.
 
A young nymph with long copper-red hair emerges from a dense tangle of red, coral, and ivory roses. Her half-closed eyes and parted lips give the figure a suspended expression, somewhere between surrender, desire, and contemplation. The flowers brush against her, intertwine with her, and seem to grow from her own body — or perhaps to have just generated her.
 
This work is dedicated to the red rose, a flower cultivated all over the world, with origins especially in Asia, and for centuries linked to the idea of absolute love and desire. It is one of the most symbolically rich flowers in the cultural history of the West: in the ancient world it was associated with Aphrodite, goddess of love; later, in Christian symbolism, it became the Rosa Mystica, linked to the Virgin. In art history, the red rose has represented desire, passion, and that intense beauty which can vanish in an instant.
 
The nymph who embodies it holds this very tension: the idea that to love means to choose, to desire deeply, and to accept the vulnerability that every true bond carries within it. Passion here is not a simple feeling, but a destiny embraced without fear.