From the French “pensées” or thoughts, these wild pansies, also known as heartsease and violas, mean think of me. This vintage paperweight will find its way into my Florilegia where I explore the Victorian meaning of these flowers in a visual way.
Heartsease caught in resin
I’m thinking of you….
& now you’re thinking of me, too.
Pansies are among my very favorite flowers, their perky little one-eyed faces seem to be looking right @ us. And in the “thinking of me/you” vein, may be imagined to say:
“I’m seeing you……
& now your seeing me, too.
A delicate special little bloom, what Victorian lady or gent wouldn’t love to receive the much sought after human need of being thought of through the clandestine message of a bouquet of violas. I wonder if the size of the bouquet would stress greater meaning than a single bloom?? Thus the conundrum: Less is More OR More is Less……
Thoughts of you, Mom