Individual well-being—expressed directly by portraiture, by ordinary objects that reveal individual use and memory, or by personal symbols that convey something of an unknown person’s inner life—is complex. Consequently, works that depict individual well-being encompass an entire spectrum of emotions and responses to the world. Individual well-being and images which address it often convey that which is subjective, the part of a person’s life that is inward and personal. Conclusions about meaning are often provisional even when the person or objects are known to the artist or viewer. Perhaps, for that reason, works with symbols that convey individual memories or experiences are so resonant. These can represent comfort, peace, power, longing—or just evoke personal memory. Conveying well-being in these pictures does not merely look to that which is positive, but rather to things that convey personal aspirations and desires, even the pensiveness or the passing exuberance of the moment.