The Haining

Yesterday my art and design college class went on a small journey to The Haining which lies in the small town of Selkirk. When we arrived there, we spent the morning looking around the ancient building at the art work of a former art graduate. One piece of her work really caught my eye as I was wandering around and that piece was the bronze metal ticking heart sculpture. One thing I have learned from studying art and design for the past six years of high school is that any piece of work has a meaning behind it and by opening your mind, you are able to explore and find it. With the ticking heart sculpture I personally felt as though I could relate to the meaning I found. The meaning that came out of the piece for me was that the metal heart resembled a strong, powerful organ that controls the blood flowing throughout our body that keeps us alive but also at the same time resembles the hard, cold, warm feeling and the power of love. If it's the warm bubbly feeling that makes your heart glow or the dark, shallow, heavy feeling that makes your heart sink, I strongly believe that the heart controls all of our feelings that we experience and live by. Throughout our live we experience a lot of things that make us happy, sad and angry, whether it's a joyful or a heart breaking moment I feel like the only thing that can fix the feelings happening in your heart is time which relates back to the ticking of the heart. The metal used to create the heart also for me symbolizes that our hearts are solid and to a certain degree indestructible as no matter how sad you are feeling, within time things do get better and your heart starts to cope again.