For the February issue we are tackling love, loss and indifference. It's the month of hearts and flowers, or not. In the words of ABC "All I'm saying is it takes a lot of love you" (Look of Love, 1982) and we want to scratch the surface and look at the darker side of love. There is an old saying, "Those who love less hold the power". Is it about control, power or driven by lust? We were excited to see how you tackled this subject for this months exhibition.
The above piece is by our editor Jenna Fox called - Love loss and Indifference.
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Artist: Tripura
Title: You are the gravity of my reality. Media
3D motion graphics.
Description: I believe that love can do everything. It is able to penetrate through all, showing all the purity of being. I believe that love can change reality, open all doors, and even break walls. When it seems that only a scorched field remains, love appears, and at that moment it shows its power of creation. It may seem that love is tearing you apart, crushing your soul and the reality around you. But if you stop and immerse yourself in it, you will understand that in fact it makes you complete. If, after all, you are ready to follow it…
Dedicated to all those who have experienced or are currently experiencing this transforming, most powerful feeling in this mortal world.
Cherish the love. it is very fragile like our hearts.
Watch the video:
”You are the gravity of my reality”. 3D motion graphic. Sound art by Lo.Sai. 2022
Instagram: @tripura_maha
Artist: Gigi DYER
Title: Pippy Show I - 77 ways to kill a new bride (from a distance).
Media: Multi-media, stitch, pins, collage, lace, type, pencil, paint, photocopy. A4
Description: A lifeless 'bride' doll as transitional object, or inanimate, othered, hollow-self. The death of love, promises broken, a veil of falling, sewn tears. Pain laid bare. Processing the shock of betrayal and emotional wounds. Using scratch, pin and piercing as visceral wounds on paper, with slow stitch and embroidery as self-healing through ritual and embellishment.
Instagram: @GDyerArts
Artist: David Aarón
Title: The quest for others to accept you
Media: Oil painting
Description: The insistent need for strangers to flatter you, see you and love you. A quest that actually begins and ends within oneself but that younger people get caught up in as they have no experience in dealing with the many and varied opinions of others. Its a self portrait so i have face this inner conflicts , hopes of other that give me the love that I wasnt giving myself, is a matter of awareness , to give yourself what you want for you , not to put the responsibility for my own wellbeing, happiness and affection on you
Instagram: @davidaaronartist
Artist: Tracey Waddington
Title: Bringing Down the Moon
Media: Pencil
Description: It is an impossible promise to give the moon, and yet the enormity of love can seem impossible to express. It is a declaration of enormous hope and love. The giver willing to sacrifice something or everything.
Instagram: @traceyartwaddington
Artist: Susan Plover
Title: The Look Of Love? Media: collage
Description: Love is complex. People say there is a fine line between love and hate. That is why the title of the piece ends in a ?
Instagram: @susanplover7639
Artist: Jacob Courtney
Title: Constantly Talking to Myself
Media:Pen Drawing, Coloured and Edited Digitally.
Description: This was some personal work to try and illustrate some thoughts and feelings I had about 2022 as we moved into 2023. I struggled a bit with some personal problems last year and am still working through them, however I feel like I have a bit more perspective on things now and am hopefully making steps in the right direction. At the risk of being too self-indulgent or saccharine, the piece aims to reflect my relationship with myself, and my aim to improve myself and become more comfortable in my own skin.
Instagram: @jacobcourtneyillustration
Artist: Suzie Pindar
Title: Hands
Media: Photography
Description: The artwork/photos I would like to submit are based on my private life and reflect the deep love I have for someone very close to me. My obstacles have been allowing someone to love me, and more than anything receiving love as a adult. My work captures the simplicity of hand holding, human touch, things many take for granted.
Instagram: @suziepindar
Artist: David Kirkman
Title: Love Always
Media: Mixed Media
Description: 'Love Always' is an original limited edition mixed media giclee print, part of the Love and Honey collection. These pieces combine aspects of my original abstract paintings and a very well-known bear. The characters of Winnie the Pooh have been attributed to representing different mental health conditions, these amazing characters show that everyone deserves love from both themselves and others.
Instagram: @dkirkmanart
Artist: Eleanor Rodwell
Title: 'Leaving'
Media: Charcoal, fine-liner pen, A1 paper.
Description: Sometimes you just need to leave. This was drawn blind, after a relationship broke down. It's about that tension, the gut-wrenching weirdness when deciding to leave a love that has given you so much, and trusting that the loss will give you even more.
Instagram: @erodwellart
Artist: Jezzelle H R Kellam
Title: Reverence For My Cell
Media: Graphite on paper
Description: This drawing is an ode to self-love. The figures in my work are not just self-portraits but are representations of all of our bodies, as all our stories are ones we all share. When people view my work I hope they can take away what I have gained from my art, a sense of clarity and a deeper appreciation for our physical selves, many of us are dealing with the same disconnect and battles in life yet we feel so alone in it.
Instagram: @jezzellehrkellam
Artist: Bobby Dazzler
Title: Not Like Other Girls
Media: Digital Collage
Description: Some love is soft, slow burning and comfortable... Other love is intense & destructive. It will strike through your heart & destroy everything you thought you knew of yourself, leaving a bloody mess when it goes. This work explores that intense feeling where tastes, perceptions & realities are altered by infatuation.
Instagram: @bobby_dazzles
Artist: Jane Andrews
Title: Holy Incontestable
Media: Oil on canvas
Description: I think this would fall under ‘indifference’ He plummets while she sits precariously in decrepit domesticity, unconcerned
Instagram: @jane_andrews_
Artist: Sarah Grace Dye
Title: Document Part 3
Media: Artist's Books (collage, drawing, ephemera, origami)
Description: This work is a collection of artist's books made during a self enforced residency in my home I was about to sell in the process of moving from the UK to Germany. I had to make choices about the mountain of objects and ephemera left by the three members of my immediate family that have died. I HAD to downsize and preserve in the best possible way the lives of the three I love so dearly. I now have a precious case 'Document 3' of artist's books about their lives that contain a wealth of personal artifacts and social history that can be easily explored and transported wherever I go.
I would be very happy to write a piece about the process if you were interested. This is a link to a film from 2014 https://youtu.be/Py45HinfNlU talking about 'Document 1' the start of this project that eight years later has led to this piece.
Instagram: @sarah_grace_dye
Artist: Lonni Wong
Title: Love me, love me not, 2021
Media: Greenware Ceramics, artificial teeth
Description: I love working with associations, coming out from a subconscious mind, which is different for everyone, depending on personal intimacy.
In this work i documented how we destroy this object with a hammer: teeth are flying, the dick smashing into pieces, love sometimes hurts! I'm interested in relations that are mutually dependent in toxic, loving or just (dis)passionate matters.
Instagram: @lonni_wong
Artist: Becky Morris Knight
Title: Medio Naranja Media: Digital Photograph
Description: Part of a short series exploring the idea of a long-term relationship where you become two halves of a whole. We can never know who we would be without the other person. And don't really want to. It's thinking about how we grow together, play together and stay together over a long period of time.
Instagram: @bexmorrisknight
Artist: Susannah Goulding
Title: Chemotherapy Flowers
Media: Oil and mixed media on canvas
Description: Living with incurable cancer leads one to see love differently. My partner lovingly bought me a bouquet of fresh flowers each time I went through a cycle of chemotherapy. I became drawn to observing the beauty of their decay, reminding me of my own mortality and finding the strength through love to embrace the moment by capturing the image and gently accept loss.
Instagram: @susannahgoulding
Artist: Janet Lees
Title: Crush
Description: I made this film from a poem I wrote exploring the darker side of young love, which for me included episodes of sexual violence, as it does for so many young women. The film happened when I found a partially clothed doll in a junk shop - returning home I put her on the dashboard of the car and immediately knew I had a film concept to bring the poem to life.
Instagram: @janetlees2.0
Artist:Irina Sokolova
Title: Pitfalls
Media: Photo
Description: “I can't live without him! She's driving me crazy! I can't think of anything but him/her!” , - it’s a dream relationship, isn't it? The search for “hero of the novel" takes years, and sometimes a lifetime. Have you noticed that most bright and passionate relationships end sadly? The basis of pain is the nature of the relationship itself. What is often considered to be a “hot” love, is nothing more than a “codependent relationship” that arises from the attraction of similar childhood partners’ traumas.
In the process of creating a photo project, the printed photos, like heavy stones, were drowned. Through the water column, the distortion of the couple, that is on the emotional bottom and under the pressure of unresolved problems, is shown.
Bright colours focus on pain and toxicity. Translucency dissolves lovers in each other and blurs personal boundaries. The author suggests discussing whether love is possible without passion and “struggle for love”, but on the basis of respect, acceptance and self-sufficiency.
Instagram: @irinasokolova_ph
Artist: Xxx Jojo
Title: The passion of love
Media: Photography
Description: In inviting couples to come to my studio and kiss I am exploring the idea of how 2 can become 1, literally and with the help of a slow shutter speed.
Instagram: @jojothephotographer
