@hope_neverends

title inspired by my mortal's twitter dn c:

Anyway this post is about how i got inspired to have my central idea as hope owo

BIRDS. <3 i love birds :D so chirpy and chipper and full of life ^^ i love watching sparrows and mynahs hop around in my garden pecking around at the ground. the same way a scenic painting of grasslands and trees or a park is never complete without some birds in the background. they just add so much liveliness to everything :D they also aptly symbolise hope, a concept i have always loved due to the pure, positive nature of it ^^
the moment i got inspired by birds, i started thinking of how to integrate them in and the first thing i thought of was a bird house :D it's relatively easy to make and it can house a candle AND has holes for the light to shine through! (fine there's only one hole but i can carve more :D) my concept for the bird house is that since "home is where the heart always is", and birds symbolise hope, the home of birds would symbolise that "where there is hope, there will your heart be, also". (partially koped from harry potter ^^)
this is a snowdrop flower (: i stumbled upon it when researching on what flowers symbolise hope, and found this - a small pure white flower with three petals and a heart shaped center. i drew this out of a picture on google where it was night time and the whiteness of the snowdrop shone in the darkness like a bright light, similar to a candle in the darkness. at first i wanted to make a snowdrop shaped candle holder, but i scrapped the idea in the end :/
and now, *drumroll* the central (ish) object in my sculptures! the candle. i drew this from a picture from google and in the picture the candle was in complete darkness so the candle was the only source of light in the entire picture. candles generally symbolise hope. people light them in sky lanterns, people light them and set them to float on rivers, people light them to illuminate their surroundings, and people light them for warmth in the cold. And where in other places, fire is a dangerous, unstoppable, life-destroying force, when lighted on a candle, it transforms into a source of light, warmth, and hope.