The anthropology of Love

Publication for Tethered Fiction, at the Chelsea College of Arts Graduate Show
 
2024

This 26 page archive documents encounters with the earth: works that use nature as a medium and were meant to disappear. The book has no beginning or end. It rotates on a ring binder, mirroring ecosystems, seasonal sequences, and the symbiotic relationship between nature and life cycles. Stories can be created by reordering the images, generating infinite dialogues that honour the earth's temporal rhythms (which do not seek a linear narrative).

The works are not intended to be art; instead their status is determined by their placement within the room’s office cabinet, once used to hold records and data. This cabinet harks back to the building’s history as a hospital, as T.a.o.L features multiple “anatomical studies” which play with Western medical conventions, attempting to destabilise hierarchies of science based knowledge systems.