When I was younger and

When I was younger and first became interested in painting, I was quickly drawn to surrealism. I wanted to express myself through this style in some way. This is one of my first surrealistic artworks. The arteries of the heart, with which they normally create life, are now separated from other organs, thus representing mortality and transience of all life. Butterflies, which carelessly and innocently fly through the arteries, unaware of the heart’s death and past, represent the naivety of a child who is unaware of the ever-present uncertainty and mortality in the real world.