From the Artist: "I wanted to create a unique greeting. The 'love' symbol is embossed in gold with bamboo as the background."
From the Painting Guide: This is a beautiful, elegant Valentine's. I don't know if you chose bamboo because for it's beauty or symbolism, which includes longevity (it's always got green shoots), strength and grace (it bends readily but doesn't break easily). In Chinese philosophy the straight stem of bamboo symbolizes the path towards enlightenment, the segments of the stem being the steps along the way. This makes it the ideal complement to the ideogram for love.
From the Painting Guide: This is a beautiful, elegant Valentine's. I don't know if you chose bamboo because for it's beauty or symbolism, which includes longevity (it's always got green shoots), strength and grace (it bends readily but doesn't break easily). In Chinese philosophy the straight stem of bamboo symbolizes the path towards enlightenment, the segments of the stem being the steps along the way. This makes it the ideal complement to the ideogram for love.