by Jonsama
This is a painting by Jonsama and his girlfriend, an artist I came across on a blog years ago, and it has always stuck with me. The first time I saw it, it had the following quote attached to it:
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it,we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Although I know they were not initially intended to be together, the combination of the two always gives me a lot of pleasure visually and emotionally. I have been focusing on it recently as it always helps me with projects based on narrative, as to me it has connotations of fantasy and mythological places, so was entirely suited to the Imaginary Beings project.
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