In addition to the Valentine’s Day Wallpaper post, I’m also doing a collection of images that are related with the season and the ‘feeling’ or ‘thought’ of what love is.. These are just artistic images and I thought some of them were interesting enough to share. Let’s see what I was able to find. Some of them are images that can be bought on deviantart. If you like them enough do consider! :) I’ve also added the artists comments on their images. Heh it’s all about looking at art in abstract (or not) for this post. I’m also writing this post cause I just wanted to see how others view love..

 

love by ~auroille

Love is the smell of summer on a hot afternoon
Love is that tiny spark along the horizon
Love is a four letter word
Love is when you want time to stop
for one more moment
one more day
one more forever.

“Hold it up, then light it up for the world to see” ~atomic-ikon

 

love is… by ~dorkmunch

love is
painful
messy
work
worth it?

My comments: What I find unique about this photo, is that it shows how love is not all cozy, and made of wonderful images or words. Love between people is sometimes painful. With obstacles blocking the very essence of what it means to love. The relationships that come with human love is hard.. and confusing. I don’t think I’ll ever break the code, get the code or even understand the code. But that’s just it isn’t it… there are no rules for love.. is there? The image above reads for me that with every love there are sacrifices and heartbreaks.. In the end though it may all be worth it. The picture above can look tragic and sad, however i see a tiny light at the end of the picture. In a way the picture represents the last bit of hope. Despite the wounds on the heart but in the end it is mended.

 

Love by *ladyrapid

This is a little sudden for me, to post something so strong and meaningfull just like this , BAM! :).

I saw this flower and thought, hmm what can I do with this one rather than just take a plain straight up shot on it.
After some concideration I think it can be fun to do something not so common and with a more personal touch. The idea of trying to display some kind of feeling or mode felt like something cool.
I picked it all except 1, now you get the title huh :).

Love can be represented in many many different ways, this is just my personal touch to it all. What I like most of this photo/work is the fresh sense of it. It’s not “just another photo”, it’s a nice little twist on a long and great message/concept, love.
There’s different types of love, the one you have for your family, for your clothes, for your friends, for photographing etc etc :). This perhaps can show and view MY love to photographing and everything around it.

To symbolise a message, thought, idea etc you aren’t bound to use the colours intendet, as in this photo you’d say that red is essential but no. It’s the colours I choose to mediate together with my ideas. With that said I want you all to stop think so closed-minded about colours, go outside the boarders and experiment. It’s only with new ways we can invent new things ^^.

 

Love by =ahermin

According to the Greek legend, red roses arised from blood of Adonis who was killed by a wild boar on a hunt. In Greek mythology red rose was a symbol for the cycle of growth and decay, but also for love and affinity. Red rose is dedicated to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and daughter of Zeus.

…I found this bloom by the sea last evening, hunting for sunsets. It was quite touching to see its strong colors even after death.What’s funny is that when I went home and I blew up the frame on my monitor, I clearly distinguished the textile texture in the petals, revealing it’s artificial origin…

 

love. by ~jan-ex

 

Love is beyond all words. 

this is inspired by all the typography work i have seen around on deviant art. but i have decided that love is a language beyond all – anyone in the world would have experienced love- no matter which form it is in: family, friends, spiritural…

and so i figured i should translate it to ALOT of different languages. since the language of ‘love’ is international so i went on google and searched for online translator(s) to translate the word, love (in english), to 30+ different languages. (so i’m really sorry if some ain’t correct, since i don’t really speak/write/read your language : P) 

yep. so spread the love, darlings. 

 

The Love Omen by `gilad

This light in your eyes, only I can see

This smile on your face, devoted just for me
This love in my heart, that forever will be
I know somebody must be looking over 
You and me

My Comments: I just thought this was a simple yet touching poem. See you don’t need to say much. 

 

Love Pollution by ~ll

So, yes, anyways – an anti valentines day message this year – I’m really not against the idea of celebrating love – love is a many splendid thing after all – I just take issue with the notion that’s it’s one huuuuge buildup to one day of the year – guys are under pressure to get the perfect gift, girls are obssessing about all the romatic things they’ll invariably end up not doing – and all the singletons winge about how they’re so unlucky! Much like Christmas and all other major holidays, it’s a lot of buildup to what is largely a very damp squib of a day that only rarely lives up to your expectations…

And yet – this one’s not even a religious holiday! Ok, birth of a deity, fair enough, you can have a day devoted to that, death of a deity you can have best part of a week – but a saint being mauled by a lion? Now you’re pushing it!

Yet in spite of that, like it or loathe it, everyone feels compelled to participate – and so the factory owners laugh a hearty laugh for another year and stoke the fires to belch out more cards, gifts and other materialistic tokens of love – leaving valentine’s day ending up looking cheap, nasty, suffocationg, sickening…anybody see where I’m going here? 

Ahem, anywho, I think my point is made – whatever your status, much love to all for this time of year – I know it’s a pain in the ass and an excuse to sell more chocs before Easter but have a good one all the same :)

My commnets: I purposely decided to add this picture to the collection, cause it’s a simple way of showing how valentine’s day has become nothing more than a commercial event. Really is the day about love? Or about spending? You have ridiculous prices for food, roses and chocolates which should never be. For me I’ll be honest in saying that, it is special for me because that was the day I got together with the person i care for. I don’t want to buy into all the hype of the so called ‘love’ on that day. Valentine’s Day may be my original anniversary day but as of this year I’ll be anti-Vday.

 

 

The Way of Love by ~heavenzchild

My comments:  Need I say more why this was included :)  

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (New International Version)

Love is patient, love is kind.

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.