Aquamarine, symbolizing the near perfect clarity and transparency of the ocean, is the big sister of the Beryl family whose relatives also include Bixbite, Goshenite, Emerald, Heliodor and Morganite.
This is, of course, especially true of public art — the art chosen self-consciously by public institutions to symbolize the public order and to inculcate in its viewers appropriate attitudes toward that order.”
The upward facing books symbolize the truth that is discernible through our fives senses; the overturned book symbolize what can only be known through the illumination of the Holly Spirit.
They usually build a doll made of old rags and stuffed with fireworks and firecrackers to light them up and symbolize leaving the bad things from the old year behind.
She expressed her inner turmoil with a double self-portrait called The Two Fridas, showing her past self on the left, which was wearing a white dress, symbolizing her past purity and innocence.