How Big How Blue How Beautiful question

[shmal96 2,928]

I LOVE this album, and I've seen this symbol a lot throughout the Era (it was on her merch too) I like the simplicity of it, but does it have a meaning? What does it represent? 

 

[retroglamx 5,099]

They're alchemy symbols:

They represent air and water, Flo explained something about how they were related to the album in an interview but I have been unable to find it ever since that one time I read it on Tumblr. Hope that helped. 

[retroglamx 5,099]

Alchemy:

the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir.

a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.

[retroglamx 5,099]

Interviews:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-liberation-of-florence-welch-it-was-humbling-to-be-heartbroken-20151028

At the end of the set, Welch is exhausted from running around and banging heads with the crowd. She collapses, dramatically though likely with sincerity, in the spotlight, her arms and legs outstretched like a snow angel. But while she may be spent, she's also content. "Performing is literally exorcising it with people," she says in the morning. "There's something about the alchemy of performance that takes something that was sad or frustrating, and it has a chemical reaction in your bloodstream and it comes out as joyful." She's free.

http://ew.com/article/2015/10/06/florence-welch-new-tour/

It’s funny because when you’re writing songs, you carry them around like little talismans. They’re like your little magic spells to keep you safe or make you feel better. The thing is then you really have to live with those feelings, and it’s quite an intense process ’cause you’re still so in it. But there’s something really freeing and healing about singing them because you’re finally able to release it. There’s a kind of alchemy that happens where something was really sad for a long time and then you’re singing it and you see other people singing it too. That kind of connection is really liberating.

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Analysis: http://florenceandthemachine.pl/wordpress/how-big-how-blue-how-beautiful-symbolika-i-interpretacja/?lang=en

[shmal96 2,928]

43 minutes ago, retroglamx said:

Interviews:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-liberation-of-florence-welch-it-was-humbling-to-be-heartbroken-20151028

At the end of the set, Welch is exhausted from running around and banging heads with the crowd. She collapses, dramatically though likely with sincerity, in the spotlight, her arms and legs outstretched like a snow angel. But while she may be spent, she's also content. "Performing is literally exorcising it with people," she says in the morning. "There's something about the alchemy of performance that takes something that was sad or frustrating, and it has a chemical reaction in your bloodstream and it comes out as joyful." She's free.

http://ew.com/article/2015/10/06/florence-welch-new-tour/

It’s funny because when you’re writing songs, you carry them around like little talismans. They’re like your little magic spells to keep you safe or make you feel better. The thing is then you really have to live with those feelings, and it’s quite an intense process ’cause you’re still so in it. But there’s something really freeing and healing about singing them because you’re finally able to release it. There’s a kind of alchemy that happens where something was really sad for a long time and then you’re singing it and you see other people singing it too. That kind of connection is really liberating.

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Analysis: http://florenceandthemachine.pl/wordpress/how-big-how-blue-how-beautiful-symbolika-i-interpretacja/?lang=en