this is not a love song
this is not a love song explores the tentative nature of interpersonal communications. The piece operates as a book in the format of a Jacob’s ladder toy (carefully). As the book is opened, closed, flipped, reversed, repeated, and propped up, the narratives move forward and retreat backward through slight shifts in meaning. Conflicting perspectives travel in multiple directions, as visual, multi-pointed, cut out dimensions and conversing bodies of text.
Through closely maneuvered tautological statements and multi-faceted dimensional forms cut from the pages, an abstract narrative begins to take place. This calls into question the relations not only between the protagonist and the unrequited, but between reader and author, viewer and artist.
As a dimensional piece, the work explores the possibilities of narrative and the notion of text as object. The book is a never-ending cycle of revealing and obscuring text and image; it has no true beginning or end, and is always approached in medias res. Through this format, this is not a love song questions the persistence of personal relationships, and how unreliable our forms of communication are in sharing perspectives.