The Death of Love

2017

Handcrafted organic cotton dress incorporating Twisted Stiletto artefacts

170 × 100 × 20 cm

The Death of Love is an empty sculptural garment, pattern-cut around a live body held in a position of collapse. Love is considered not solely as romantic attachment, but as a broader structure of compulsions and emotional dependencies that can outlive their usefulness. The dress remains uninhabited, functioning as a residual form that traces a body no longer present.

By fixing an ephemeral posture into textile structure, the work gives material presence to absence. The vacant garment allows the body it once described to be encountered from an external position, transforming vulnerability into something observable and held. Emptiness here is not resolved, but stabilised, offering distance, perspective, and the possibility of reorientation.