“Love is the flower you’ve got to grow.” John Lennon
The analogies of a flower to love are poetic and plentiful. Clearly, it is one of the most accessible comparisons for we, humans to attempt to describe what love is. After all, being in love is not exactly that simple to describe in words—that is without resorting to a few analogies and metaphors.
Danny, too, has turned to a visual simile for love in his Passiflora ketubah. The beauty of this fantastic flower has a naïve quality. The coloring is soft and harmonious in the Pastel version, or a bit more of a riveting rendition in the Wine variation. Either way, there is something thoroughly captivating and wonderful, simple, and yet, enigmatic about this flower! Perfectly fitting as a visual description of what love is. And as Claude Monet said “I must have flowers, always, and always”.
