![]() All I needed was the wine, a red wine, a French red wine. The idea was to have the SquareRoot of Love graphic on the front label, my poem on the back label, and a QR code that would connect you to the video poem. This missing factor inspired me to think about how wine and its bottle could be used to advance the theme of this Love project. We can go on forever about wine’s connection to notions and behaviors of Love. While the event was powerful and rich with cultural intersections, there was something missing: that special wine. This last question led me to a graphic design representation, then a poem, then an animation based on the poem, then a duet installation with the legendary Karen Finley at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, then a SquareRoot of Love happening that became a kaleidoscope of art, music, poetry, and film, complete with an especially prepared math-art-love multi-course menu of exotics roots and tasty aphrodisiacs. But if you dare to look at love through a mathematical art lens, you might ask what is the geometry or topology of Love, what are the factors of Love, what X what = Love or, what is the square root of love? ![]() And while the love of a god, country, family, ideas, objects, and space is the very force that drives us to incredible civilized development, it is also perhaps the over-love of such things and their various combinations that has led much too often to dreadful destruction.Īs complex and simple as love can be, it is indeed a magical thing. And too much or too little can induce a pathological Mobius path where Love and hate can become one, creating a space of distortion, disconnection, and debilitating depression. ![]() It has been examined, preached, counterfeited, and even traded. This idea of love has been the cornerstone of our human survival, of world religions, spiritual and political movements, a musing for arts and letters, and a powerful metaphor for all that is good and even godly. But what is equally stunning is our collective capacity: to be compassionate, to be creative, to be self-sacrificing, to give and, most incredibly, to Love. In these critical times of political nervousness, individual and group terrorism, and state-sanctioned xenophobia, there is an unsettling emerging realization that humanity’s capacity to be mean, selfish, destructive and immorally silent is as natural as hurricanes off the coast of Florida.
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