Your Heart
Is A Muscle
The Heart is a Muscle is a multisensory ceramic sculpture installation featuring anatomical hearts, each visually altered to interpret a music or literary reference submitted by the public.
This project explores universal themes of the heart, emotion, and metaphor for shared human experience. By inviting the community to contribute, participants become co-creators — giving the body of work a shared sense of authorship. The artist merely acts as a facilitator.
Once a reference is submitted, the artist takes all information provided to turn words into a visual representation. The ceramic hearts are each altered individually to work alongside the reference given, and will be displayed side by side for the audience to be able to experience together.
Project Guide
Step 1
Review music, books, poems, etc you’ve connected with that use heart and metaphor to convey deep feeling or experiences.
Click the submission form button to submit your reference for consideration in the project.
Review and submit a reference
Step 2
Please follow and check in with artist handle @ellerosewood on Instagram for process videos and updates to the project.
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Community connection experience
Step 3
Once the project is ready, there will be local pop-up opportunities to connect with the community and the work, in addition to a virtual option to increase accessibility to the project beyond time and physical limitations.