Jan Moseley
"So Many Keys to my Heart"

ARTIST STATEMENT:

With my mother's recent passing, I lost my best friend. My friends and relatives filled my sad heart with so many emotions - comfort, happiness, blessedness, friendship, joy, gratitude - and I wondered that one heart could hold so many different, sometimes conflicting emotions. While clearing out Mom's treasures, I discovered multiple key rings of multiple keys, similar to the ones I inherited after my father's passing, with no idea or evidence of what they locked and unlocked. Somehow the surplus of keys and emotions came together in my mind to visualize a heart filled with keys, some lovely, some interesting, some uninteresting and others simply functional, though to what use? I also found several tiny locks and decided to also use them, knowing that there are emotions, memories and areas of my heart that I keep locked away!

Can you find the:

- tiny locks? (5)

- clock keys that have smooth, round ends instead of teeth? (4)

- keys used as paperweights? (2)

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