how i misunderstand you

And here is the second.


and another detail...

Neither picture really does the painting justice as far as color. The first is a little too dark, showing more of the shadows of the texture than are apparent in real life, and the second is way too blown out, but it shows a detail of the stitching that i included. I'm still trying to figure out how to photograph my paintings...
This is a mixed media painting... fabric, stitching, encaustic on wood. And it's pretty small, measuring 6"x7.5". I've never included imagery such as a heart in a painting before, but i'm playing around with it in several paintings as representative of the unseen...