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symbol of Nature, of the ever prolific and virgin Earth, or Isis, the mother and nourisher of man, considered as feminine and represented as a virgin woman by the Egyptian initiates." It is no coincidence that Charles' most famous fabric design is the 'Rose and Teardrop' pattern, widely reproduced. The Mackintoshes thus disseminated, through a variety of decorative vehicles, an image pregnant with esoteric meaning best apprehended, like love, in interiority, in privacy. More recently, I encountered two other images of a heart and a rose which I found not only decorative, but emotionally powerful. My friend, the German painter Petra Singh, has hanging in her bedroom—a sanctuary defined by ancient Indian furniture and artifacts—two of her paintings which, like Margaret MacDonald's, are redolent with the relationship between passion, mystical or human, the Rose and the Heart. Petra possesses an important collection of contemporary art— Dschungle Rose, 2010 HYLAND

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