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Sometimes finding a title for pieces is very difficult. Brunhilde was one of those; I agonized over its title for days, and finally decided that I had landed on the most appropriate one. This one, however, came easily. It implies a flight, a learning experience, and a return to the earth. As I read about the symbols, the story of Icarus came to mind, and it seemed that the story itself was a metaphor for the inability of a human mind to recognize the truth it was presented with. The symbols are as follows: The broken bottle represents the revelation of a secret interior or knowledge. Brown is the ploughed earth, humility, poverty, and monks' robes (in the Christian tradition). Bubbles (the beads) represent death and the transience of life. Silver can be purity or corruptibility as well as divine wisdom. Broken necklaces are an unshackling and destruction of establishment. Feathers are spiritual authority, flight, ascension and wings, and flowers (the pendent on the broken necklace) represent the spiritual center and a state of evolution. There is also the letter N on the square piece between the bottle top and the silver pendent, and the letter N is said to represent "serpent" which is another symbol for temptation. My notes for this piece, brought about as my mind made connections between the symbolic meanings above, are very sparse, so rather than try to interpret them in prose, I offer them here in their naked form: too close to the sun = near to illumination |