MANIFESTO

"The Art of Loving" was first conceptualized at the tumultuous end of a very passionate but tremendously flawed relationship. I had lost my faith in love, in both my understanding and experience of it, and was desperate to find it restored. I began working on an almost entirely instinctual basis, as concepts and images were birthed in ways that even I--the creator--could hardly articulate. But while the project was still in its infancy, something quite significant, and perhaps fateful, occurred: Love reentered my life. The restoration of my trust in love was now working on two fronts, both from the outside and in. The time came to understand the work at my hands, to move the instinctual into the intellectual while preserving its purity. As the pieces developed, I began to see that the aesthetics and concepts chosen to portray each object of love were results of deeply embedded perceptions during times of extreme vulnerability. It is the outside looking into something fragile yet resilient, intimate but sparse. "The Art of Loving" is not merely a set of images, but a set of fundamental, essential, ever-present perceptions of experience, finally being freed from the depths of the internal through a visual medium.

LOVE OF GOD

concepts:

• light v. dark
• empty v. full (also applies to 'light' metaphor)
• personal space & experience v. universal space & experience


granted, these concepts also help shape the other videos, but the "light v. dark" motif serves a particularly significant purpose in the "LOVE OF GOD" video.