Mirror (The Anatomical Heart)

Set within an ornate, funereal oval frame, the anatomically rendered heart reads like a relic—at once scientific specimen and intimate portrait—its branching veins echoing both roots and fractures. The restrained sepia palette and worn paper ground evoke an aged archive, suggesting memory as something handled, rubbed thin, and nevertheless preserved. By elevating flesh to the status of a cameo, the composition stages a quiet tension between decoration and vulnerability, where the body’s most private engine becomes a devotional icon of endurance and grief.