I thought the term was from Gabriel Garcia Marquez or something, but apparently it's older than that. Has to do with mystic Christians and our inability as humans to apprehend the whole of God (it would kill us). So, when we get too close, God, out of the kindness of his heart, puts up a "cloud of forgetting" so that we don't blow our tiny little minds.
I used the idea to express a more sinister idea; the cloud is something that happens in me when I choose to pay attention to my obsessions rather than my loved ones.
This was done about 6 or 7 years ago, when my girlfriend and I were still living in San Antonio. I believe she drew the "butt-heart" to represent herself, because she loves the scatological aspect of people, especially in herself. Heck, that's what she studies.
i thought the butt heart was god...
ReplyDeletethe scatological aspect of god, like in Ubik or whatevah...
actually i can't remember why i drew the butt heart. other than that's how i used to draw butts when i was a kid.