The Paper Ballerina - Drunkenrabbit

Embroidery on handmade paper, vintage iron frame

17.2 meters of thread

19 hours of work

12x8 cm

2025

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 accustomed to calling "love." Each heart is a fragment of this journey. It is not a decorative element, but a presence laden with experience: it contains 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 work is located in that unstable space where love is defined and contradicted. Some hearts hold the fragility of tenderness, others bear the marks of loss; still others experience anticipation, desire, irony, or disillusionment. Each represents an emotional position, a precise moment within a larger map.