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EPOCH · 2023
- Lv2
- Ts
- Cg
- Yb
Ride or Die
Love is the load-bearing wall: a bond proven across every trial, the pair inseparable from the story that tells them.
Love
Root-Force
EXTREME
RARE
LOW · Trans-Warm
The attachment drive itself, before it specialises. Tenderness, longing and grief are all versions of it under different conditions: love with something fragile in front of it, love with distance in front of it, love with nothing in front of it.
The word
Old English lufu, from a root, leubh, that scholarship also finds under belief and lief: to love, to hold dear, to trust were once close neighbours. Greek refused to make one word do all the work and kept four, eros, philia, storge, agape. English folded them back into a single syllable and left context to sort it out.
The feeling
It reorganises attention before it announces itself: one person's messages load first, one name in a list is read differently. The body treats proximity as a resource, settling near the loved thing the way it settles near heat. Time spent inside it does not register as spent. It is less a feeling than a gravity, noticed mainly when something moves against it.
Against its neighbours
Tenderness is love with something fragile in front of it, one local weather of a larger climate. Devotion is love organised into practice, the drive given a schedule. Love is the drive itself, before conditions are applied.
In the work
A gravitational centre. Everything in the frame is positioned by its relation to one thing, including the parts that never touch it.
6 works composed with Love
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$163RITO · 2023- Ep2
- Wt
- Lv
- Ct
- Mn
Mama's Quiet Lullaby
Love here is not spoken; it takes the shape of provision, proved in what she keeps doing rather than what she says.
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$446ETHOS · 2023- Lv2
- Aw
- Sg
- Eq
- Yb
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
Love is the load-bearing element, the root attachment that makes the end of the universe a place to stand rather than flee.
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$430ETHOS · 2022- Lv2
- Ct
- Lo
- Sg
- Yb
I'll Protect You in Every Life
Love is the root force of the piece, an attachment that holds across timelines whether or not the two were destined to stay.
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$171OSMOS · 2022- Tm2
- Aw
- Lv
- Pr
- Nm
Precursor
Love is the method: a bond that begins as love of defiance and matures into attachment beyond doctrine.
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$123TERRA · 2023- En2
- Lv
- Lo
- Sa
Deep Dive
Love is the root force underneath, the first-sight bond that set the whole pull inward in motion.
Composed with
- Yb Yaaburnee 3 works
- Aw Awe 2 works
- Ct Tenderness 2 works
- Lo Longing 2 works
- Sg Surrender 2 works
- Cg Courage 1 work