Dimensions: height 132 mm, width 140 mm, thickness 35 mm, width 221 mm
Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain
This Welsh family album, with its twenty photographs, features a bouquet of forget-me-nots. These delicate blue flowers, symbols of remembrance, evoke themes of memory and connection that stretch across time. Throughout history, flowers have served as powerful conduits of human emotion. In Victorian times, the "language of flowers" was used to communicate feelings that were too delicate to express openly. The forget-me-not, with its plea "do not forget me," appears in many cultural contexts, often in objects meant to preserve memories. Consider the image of wreaths in ancient Roman funerary art, where flowers connect the living with the departed, or in Renaissance paintings where flowers carry symbolic weight. This humble album, adorned with forget-me-nots, is a testament to our collective need to preserve our past, an echo of earlier rituals and artistic expressions. It is a tangible expression of enduring love and remembrance.
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