11.2 meters of love / rhizomes - Drunkenrabbit

Embroidery on handmade paper, vintage metal frame

11.2 meters of thread

15 hours of work

20x15.5 cm

2015

The artwork is part of the project This Is Not Love, What You Did, an installation composed of 393.62 meters of love that explores the complexity and contradictions of this feeling, questioning what we are used to calling “love.” Each heart is a fragment of this journey. It is not a decorative element, but a presence laden with experience: it encloses a gesture, a memory, a wound, or a possibility. It stems from a simple and unresolved question: what do we truly mean when we speak of love?
This is not love, what you did is not just a statement, but a starting point. Each piece is situated in that unstable space where love defines and contradicts itself. Some hearts guard the fragility of tenderness, others bear the marks of loss; still others traverse anticipation, desire, irony, or disillusionment. Each represents an emotional position, a precise moment within a broader map.