You Raise Me UpORIGINAL SOLD GICLE PRINTS AVAILABLE This gicle print is taken from my original oil painting on linen canvas. The carnation does not drop its petals but hugs them to its heart as it dies, and so, too, mothers hug their children to their hearts, their mother love never dying." Carnation means fascination, distinction, and love; they signify purity, faith, adoration, beauty, and charity. According to a Christian legend, carnations grew from the Virgin