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100% leather except for the face which is ultrasuede. The face is from Munch's 1895 lithograph and as exact as I could get it, and the sky loosely based on his colors and shapes. Why the heart? Two years ago I rendered into leather the face with the hands onto a large black leather heart that closed with double doors on leather hinges and with buckles and leather straps. The local HeadStart program has an annual auction every Valentine's day with hearts as its theme and I donated that first heart. I regretted not including the sky, but I regret even more not doing the hands alongside the face in this second version. It's just that this time I wanted to scale down the size and keep it down to 7 3/4" long and 7 1/4" at its widest.

30+ hours, mostly inlaywork. I'll use this either in a larger project or leave it as it is and attach eyelets and a chain and donate it to next year's Valentine's Day auction. Maybe one of these years HeadStart will finally have the funds to buy a permanent home. In the meantime it is my entry to `KevLewis 's February Grand Prize Give Away Contest [link] .

Misereeeee because IMO the root of depression, angst, and agony is the absence of love, particularly self-love. And because the helium balloon character (from Strindberg and Helium[link] ) says "Misereeeee" in response to Strindberg when he says, "listen to their happiness, it brings me misery."

Description
100% leather except for the face which is ultrasuede. The face is from Munch's 1895 lithograph and as exact as I could get it, and the sky loosely based on his colors and shapes. Why the heart? Two years ago I rendered into leather the face with the hands onto a large black leather heart that closed with double doors on leather hinges and with buckles and leather straps. The local HeadStart program has an annual auction every Valentine's day with hearts as its theme and I donated that first heart. I regretted not including the sky, but I regret even more not doing the hands alongside the face in this second version. It's just that this time I wanted to scale down the size and keep it down to 7 3/4" long and 7 1/4" at its widest.

30+ hours, mostly inlaywork. I'll use this either in a larger project or leave it as it is and attach eyelets and a chain and donate it to next year's Valentine's Day auction. Maybe one of these years HeadStart will finally have the funds to buy a permanent home. In the meantime it is my entry to `KevLewis 's February Grand Prize Give Away Contest [link] .

Misereeeee because IMO the root of depression, angst, and agony is the absence of love, particularly self-love. And because the helium balloon character (from Strindberg and Helium[link] ) says "Misereeeee" in response to Strindberg when he says, "listen to their happiness, it brings me misery."