Grating Heart

Here's a winged heart that's NOT by Thomas Mann for a change. I'm flying home today, so the choice was pretty literal: no elaborate or allegorical justification for once.

I don't wear this pin as often as I should. It's smaller than most of my other pins, so maybe it just doesn't stand out in the box. I like it for the layering of the various metals: copper, bronze, brass, silver and steel. It's a pleasing composition, nicely accented by the painted back layer beneath the copper grating. There's no signature though, so that's all I can tell you.