The Flower of Thought

The Pansy, to say "I miss you", and "I think of you".
Thoughtfulness, remembrance, quiet affection. 
 
This work is dedicated to the pansy, a flower that in Europe has for centuries carried meanings tied to memory, reflection, and emotional persistence. Even its English name suggests it: pansy derives from the French pensée, meaning “thought.” In literary tradition, this association became famous in Shakespeare, when Ophelia says in Hamlet: “and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts,” linking the flower to what one keeps thinking about, to what one cannot let go. In the nineteenth century, within the Victorian language of flowers, it became one of the most widely used signs for telling someone: you are in my thoughts.
 
For this reason, here the pansy does not represent a stable bond like love, family, or friendship, but introduces a new constellation of works: that of messages. It is the flower of what remains in the mind when a presence has withdrawn, of emotional memory returning insistently. The nymph who embodies it therefore holds a gentle melancholy, the visible form of something that cannot be retained, yet never ceases to accompany us.