LAPIS ROOM on Instagram: "THE 🖤 SHOW Opens Feb. 1 5-8pm 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 This group show is an exploration of the iconography of love, specifically the heart pictogram 🖤 as a visual symbol and how it came to be. It is one of the most immediately recognizable shapes throughout the world transcending generations and cultures. How did this simple shape come to represent such an incredibly complicated (maybe the most complicated) concept? How does the encapsulate so many themes of love? A Symbol of romantic love A Symbol of carnal love A Symbol of platonic love A Symbol of familial love A Symbol of sweetness A Symbol of self-love A Symbol of one’s love of place A Symbol of cosmic connectivity A Symbol of agricultural prosperity A Symbol of courage A Symbol of the eternity"
