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Amy Chu is an Asian
American artist, primarily working in pen and ink while encroaching a more socially
engaged practice. Her chief aim is to tell stories through drawing and text, which
doubly make you laugh and think a little harder about the individual in context of their
relationships. On Love is a compilation of a year’s worth of notebook drawings
and conversations with friends. The book ... read morediscusses topics of intimacy, empathy, and the
love we feel for strangers, family, and ourselves. On Love assumes pseudo-authority on
the study of people by loosely employing the research methods of a sociological
qualitative study: interviews with friends, an ethnography of strangers on public
transport, and content analysis of art and literature. Influenced by my other
concentration in sociology, On Love jokingly entertains an answer to the impossible
question, “What is love?” In wallpaper format, the book reads like a
personal essay and answers the question in meditative prose much like its form:
rambling, multilinear, and simultaneously
open-ended.
The introduction concludes the findings
of this pseudo-sociological qualitative study on love, and describes the abstract and
methods.
Chapter 1 is about falling in love with
strangers on public transport and possibly loving the people and stories we don't
know.
Chapter 2 is about feeling alone while
surrounded by people in a densely populated metropolitan
area.
Chapter 3 is about the need to feel close to
people during the covid-19 pandemic.
Chapter 4 is
about the love we feel for family and the struggle to correct the past generation's
mistakes while learning how to love the
next.
Chapter 5 is about drawing as a form of
"slow-looking" which allows the artist to know and love their subject more deeply. The
endnotes cites the formative literature behind this
study
On love (Scale:100 x 10 ft (wallpaper);
Materials: digital print on paper; PDF of
ink)
Keywords: Love, Gaze, sociology, social,
portrait, ethnography, intimacy, study, stranger, wallpaper, book, London, Boston,
personal essay, graphic novel, relationships,
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