Heart in Traffic By Maia Iotzova

Montreal artist Maia Iotzova writes of her Mapping the Heart photo series:

A spontaneous collection of the images of hearts I see everyday. Most of the pictures are taken with my cell phone. I used to think the symbol was very cheesy, but at some point last year I started seeing hearts everywhere and they were putting a smile on my face.

Makes me think of Gloria Steinman:

I was looking at photos of prehistoric archeological finds the other day and realized that the heart once symbolized female power. It was a procreative, genital symbol: the female version of the phallic symbol. Though trivialized into romance and deprived of its power by centuries of patriarchy, the heart still belongs to us.