of love was a three-part concurrent performance exploring the complex emotional landscape of romantic love. This visual story was told through performance, sculptural installation, and contemporary dance. “The exchange,” post a rotating group of performers who utilized non-verbal gesture, expression, and interaction to inhabit the various cycles of the experience of romantic love, from courtship to love exchanged to unrequited love to forbidden love to lost love to dissolution to cycles repeated. The center gallery showed “the weight,” a site-specifc and large-scale sculptural installation made of hope stone. The piece reached the gallery's ceiling, and the diameter was equivalent to the artist's height. This piece manifested the obtrusive nature of grief and loss. The sculpture actualized the weight of loss; the heaviness of emptiness. It was inspired by the feeling of stones piling in the chest blocking breath as loss sinks in the body. The third piece, “the movement,” showed 14 dancers performing to a crowdsourced album of songs that “made you feel it.” No sound played in the gallery, and the dancers were seemingly dancing to nothing - only the memory of the music. The sound could only be heard through headphones suspended from the ceiling - some playing the songs as the dancers moved, others playing only a heartbeat. This piece was inspired by the feeling of being out of body - of watching yourself go through the motions - the sense that these feelings are not of you, but are happening to you.

The work premiered in Anchorage, Alaska in 2013 at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art.