Youth n.º 3

Without prior sketches, letting her hand move on its own, Hilma painted The Ten Largest, a monumental series of canvases on the stages of human existence, while lying on the floor of her studio, in which an explosion of colorful forms flows through space like in a Petri dish.

In the corner of one of those works, among spirals and ovals, a shy flower held by a heart emerges, which we have turned into the protagonist. It will no longer be a minor note or just another detail amidst the general chaos, but the center of the creation with an intense emotional meaning. The heart detaches itself to offer security in a changing environment. It is the anchor. Order. Calm in the storm.

Furthermore, by moving it to the top attachment, you can remove it to make the flower an autonomous element, independent of the whole. And so, depending on the part you decide to display, you can wear the earring complete or just with the heart. A model that, by dividing, multiplies. Like the life that inspires it. Like the youth from which it takes its name.

You will find it in The Ten Largest, No. 3, Youth, Group IV, 1907.