18 Meters of Love - Drunkenrabbit

Embroidery on handmade paper, vintage metal frame

18 meters of thread

28 hours of work

22x17 cm

2014

The artwork is part of the project This Is Not Love, What You Did, an installation made 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 charged 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 talk about 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 experience waiting, desire, irony, or disillusionment. Each represents an emotional position, a precise moment within a broader map.