"Amor Est Dolor" — 24x30" Acrylic on Canvas
Original Painting by The Wandering Phoenix
In a world stained with sorrow, a solitary skeleton kneels beneath barren trees, not in offering — but in containment. Before it hangs a cage, crude and rusted, housing a still-bleeding heart. This is no gift. This is a burial. A sealing away of pain too vast to carry exposed.
The blood that drips is not from sacrifice, but from survival. A heart that bleeds too easily is locked away, hidden behind iron bars to keep the world — and the self — safe from love’s cruel thorns.
Amor est dolor. Love is pain.
Painted in rich, haunting acrylics, this 24x30" original speaks to those who’ve learned to guard their tenderness. A visual dirge for the ones who loved too hard, too deeply, and had to close the cage to endure.
One of a kind. Signed by the artist.