Concept for The Love Painting in the WebStudio

During April 1999, over 500 invidividuals entered Xavier Cortada's WebStudio. During this inaugural month participants were asked to consider "Love" as the topic of the WebStudio project. Some of them entered the live chatroom and collaborated with the artists in creatiing two paintings on love. The process was documented through Webcam images and the transcripts of these sessions. Scroll down to see logs of the eleven chatroom sessions on the topic.

"How we interact with our life-partners: Intimacy in our personal relationships."

How does one begin to paint love? What is love? Is it like a math formula, with transitive properties (i.e.: if A = B, and B = C, then does A = C?). Or is it more like the laws of thermodynamics (energy can neither be created nor destroyed)? Does the Bible give us guidance ( 1 Corinthians 13:4)? Must it adapt? Must it be unconditional? Must it be eternal? Does it turn into hurt or hate, or is that something all together different? Is it intimate? What does that mean? Is it a process, something we share with our life partners? With others? Love, can it be defined, painted? Should we? Why?

discussion forum on love | participants' gallery

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