Ming Studios in Boise is collecting objects of personal heart-break to be used in an upcoming international exhibit for the Museum of Broken Relationships. I have an object I want to submit because I know, all too well, the pain of a broken relationship. In fact, today, I feel it on several different levels. One of my favorite images of a broken heart is through the work of the artist Banksy. What I love about it is that the balloon, despite having been punctured time and again is still inflated and afloat. It’s imperfect, battered, bandaged but still full.
Although Banksy doesn’t sell any of his art he did recreate this piece for a charity event Help Haiti. It was purchased by Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay for $650,000. Which brings me to this song and video by Coldplay, Gravity://youtu.be/fIyFgygYW7s …a beautiful representation of love and loss, of broken relationships.
Because we all have the capacity to love, we all have the capacity to hurt. I fully buy into the quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Tis better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all.” So on a note of optimism and in a metaphorical attempt to bandage my own broken heart, I leave you with this:
“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love but in reality, love is the only thing in the world that covers up all the pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in the world that does not hurt.” ~Liam Neeson
In the comments below, if you’re willing, tell me what your object of of a broken relationship would be and why. Once I have mine complete I will share it as well.
For me, the sign of a broken relationship would be the car seat that my son was in when he was delivered to my husband and myself. I have held on to it over the years as it represents the love that was torn when his birth parents made the decision to give him to us. Out of their tears and pain, came our tears and joy. A broken relationship that has not healed over time, that has brought such pain and sorrow and love and joy and one that I would not trade for the world.
Wow…that’s powerful. Thank you for sharing.