Alphabet Of Desire is a collaboration between Chris Reppucci and Namu Future The origin of the symbol we use for a heart, commonly referring in contemporary times to care, nurturing and romantic love, seems in earlier periods, as early as the 5th century B.C., to refer more to sexual love and sensuality in general. This is due to its more botanical origins as both the fig leaf or the fruiting seedpod of the siliphium plant, much used and valued in the Mediterranean world and written about in ...