(C) 2015 Chris Perl
Atlas of Love
There is an abundance of narratives of love buzzing in our content-loaded surroundings - descending from screens, ascending
from magazines, emerging from media of all kinds. Hollywood and Disney, GQ and Elle, The Sun and Daily News.
I love - the word often replaced by a red heart - NY, Vienna, John, Jean, Jenny, Hans ... you name it. T-Shirts, postcards, gingerbread. Objects and of all imaginable forms and sizes carry the one plain message from the main square of the metropolis to the most secluded grocer.
The philosophic and literary realms of books tell us millions of stories and thoughts about tragedies and cheating, desire and falling in love, problems and desperation. Even the elevated lands of science search for structures and patterns from reproduction to romantic love.
But where is the actual thing? The meat? The Everyday? The struggle and the progress in transforming oneself through the other, little by little by little, second by second, day by day? Where is the wonder that is able to take two I and create a We - in thought, in mind, in soul?
I love - the word often replaced by a red heart - NY, Vienna, John, Jean, Jenny, Hans ... you name it. T-Shirts, postcards, gingerbread. Objects and of all imaginable forms and sizes carry the one plain message from the main square of the metropolis to the most secluded grocer.
The philosophic and literary realms of books tell us millions of stories and thoughts about tragedies and cheating, desire and falling in love, problems and desperation. Even the elevated lands of science search for structures and patterns from reproduction to romantic love.
But where is the actual thing? The meat? The Everyday? The struggle and the progress in transforming oneself through the other, little by little by little, second by second, day by day? Where is the wonder that is able to take two I and create a We - in thought, in mind, in soul?
Fact Box
Atlas of Love
Part of
Date
January 27, 2015
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Alumni
- Christoph Perl (Presentation)
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