HEART is an MK23 experience originally created for Dan as a tattoo design, even though the artwork itself eventually took a different route. What matters in this piece is not only the final image, but the way it was built: through a split process between handmade and digital, between direct gesture and constructed intervention.

I drew one half by hand, and behind it I also wrote the background by hand, creating a layer that felt physical, immediate, and alive. Then I approached the other half in the opposite way: I drew it digitally, and the writing in the background was also done digitally. After that, I printed both parts and collaged them together, merging the two processes into a single work.

That construction is the real heart of HEART. The piece is not just about the symbol of the heart itself, but about duality, contrast, and coexistence: handmade and digital, real and constructed, direct and mediated. One side carries the warmth and imperfection of the hand, while the other carries the sharper logic of the screen. Joined together, they create a single body, but one that still reveals its internal tension.

In that sense, HEART becomes a piece about the meeting of two languages inside one form. It is a collage not only of materials, but of approaches, tempos, and realities. Through MK23, the heart is no longer just an anatomical or emotional symbol, but a field where different ways of making can confront each other and still become whole.