WITH LOVE FOREVER PROJECT

 

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I hand-embroider love text messages onto vintage handkerchiefs to transform them into objects of memory.

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The project originated from a box of love letters saved since my teenage years—a tangible archive, proof of past love stories, and a treasure. Realizing that my text messages were bound to disappear, I felt the need to preserve them and began embroidering them.

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Today, intimacy has shifted onto screens. Contemporary love messages are doomed to vanish into the cloud— when they haven't already faded away. With Love, Forever stands against this erasure.

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Initially rooted in my own text messages, the project expands into a participatory artwork. I collect love messages preserved in people's phones that they are willing to share, anonymously.

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In East Asian mythology, the Red Thread of Fate is an invisible string that connects two people destined to love each other, enduring through time and distance. So I chose this red thread.

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By bringing it to life onto vintage handkerchiefs, I give this bond a physical presence and engrave these words of love so they never disappear.

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My goal is to spread Love in the real world, away from the virtual,
and ultimately build an exhibition bringing together all these embroidered messages.