What Love Can Do

Painting by S M Chen, posted 9-15-16 by D Kovacs
“Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.” – Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), English writer & printer
16″ x 20” acrylic on canvas
S M Chen lives, writes…and paints…in California.
The painting is beautiful, but I don’t quite understand what I’m seeing. Can someone point out where is the elephant and where is the keyhole? Blue lives matter. Black lies matter. Life matters.
What you’re seeing is a closeup frontal shot of an elephant – but only its right eye and portions of trunk, right tusk and right ear. There is no key-hole. The quotation by Samuel Richardson was designed to link elephant and love; that’s all.