Lover's Ear
monoprint
2004

Portrait miniatures mounted as brooches, pendants, or lockets were very popular items of jewelry during the 18th century. Toward the end of the century, an unusual variation became fashionable: the eye brooch, or lover’s eye. These were miniature portraits of the eye of a loved one. Lover’s Ears are a series of monoprint that play with the concept of the lover’s eyes. Instead of seeing the eye as the body part that reminds one of the lover it is the ear. The ear is the organ we hear with and we listen with. Listening and being heard is an important part of a relationship, not only a love relationship, but relationships in general.