I took these / this in 2006 but here we are, verging on 2010 and I’ve only just put it together. Hearts, robots and Jesus – what could be more Christmassy?
I add it now purely to wish you, my loyal reader, a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. You’ve visited me over 2000 times now, and for that I am grateful.
I hereby raise a glass of sweet Sherry to you and wish you all the best. Hurrah!
I’m no closer to solving the mystery of the royalist heart, but here’s another offering from Versailles, this time from the edge of the Forêt Domaniale de Versailles. I know the location because there was a big brown sign opposite with the words ‘Forêt Domaniale de Versailles’ written on it.
It was taken here, on the least interesting side of an unusually ornate and marbled electricity substation and was obviously sprayed in the same pink as the numbers marked on the stacks of timber nearby.
It is an exquisitely beautiful heart. I asked Sunny, age 7, to take my portrait alongside it, which is the portrait used at the moment on my profile for this blog. I took his portrait in return.
There is something about this heart that makes me think of Picasso – I think it’s the appearance of a swirl in the upper right that does it. I can’t think where I’ve seen a Picasso heart and several attempts through Google have only led me to a cross-stitch design based on an original, so I’m still not sure of the original’s title. I’ll keep looking, just so that I can be sure that I did see a Picasso heart with a swirl somewhere other than on a cross-stitch pattern.
This was very close to the wonderful Huttopia, where we were staying, just at the entrance to the forest, close to a playground. It’s beautiful. I hope nobody paints over it before we visit again.
I thought that it would be really easy, with the help of Google, to find out more about this heart, but I’m having trouble…
It was found (though it was far from lost) in the passageway as you enter the Palace of Versailles, walking through to the gardens. It’s a beautifully clear heart, carved deeply into the stone with a crown above. A date is carved within the heart – looks like 17.5.17 , and though I’m finding it hard to see it in my own photograph, I’m sure that I could make out the words ‘le roi’ in there too.
The origin of this graffiti must be documented somewhere – if anyone can help me out it’d be much appreciated!
It was taken precisely here.
