"Love Wave" has a double meaning.
What most people don't know is that the Love waves are surface seismic waves that cause horizontal shifting of the earth during an earthquake, similar to those we watch on the surface of a lake when we drop a stone, formed from the point of impact. They get their name from the British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough Love, who in 1911 created a model for their representation, in the broader scope of the elasticity theory. Of course, it is my intention to associate these powerful seismic waves, with their destructive and yet creational power, to the energetic reactions we associate with love.
Aesthetically, the fascination of the symbolic, magical, mystical representations – from the "sacred heart" to the Irish Claddagh and the winged heart of Universal Sufism – is present in almost all the pieces, through multiple filters and reinventions, through the creation of new symbols, new hieroglyphs. The model I chose was inspired by Joseph Cornell's surrealist boxes, an heir of a certain Dada tradition.
These are symbolic pieces, collections of unexpected objects, old and new, remains, tools, jewellery, shards of glass, pieces of wood, assembled with an intent, an idea that becomes embedded in the piece. Each piece contains the symbol of its meaning, and so it becomes a new ideogram, promoting and sharing the message.
These "intentions" are in fact thoughts, quotes, ideas from many thinkers, philosophers, men and women from all nationalities, times and faiths, who made their own "Love Wave", and to whom this work constitutes a tribute.
