Red bound (2024) 

Lightbox photo print, chains, C-stand

“Red Bound” is a still image inspired by Anton Chekov’s play roughly translated in English as “The Seagull". The story surrounds different types of tragic love, capturing the intensity and desperation that comes with loving another individual.

"Red" is often the chosen colour to represent love. It has been the inspiration for multiple folklore including the East Asian mythology of the "Red String Of Fate".

Here we explore the dual meaning of bound - a place/destination or to be tied/restrained.

Hence, the title "Red bound" can be translated as "Love bound" - a destination or place, and a binding to another.

When one falls in love with another, truly in love, there is this profound, wholehearted, and desperate (maybe delusional) sense of trust in the other individual. We would be willing to do about just anything for the other. From a third person perspective, we would seem to be losing ourselves. The trust and desire to reach that place of love with another can be so extreme that we would ignore all dangers and adversities, even if it means sacrificing ourselves. A dire event would be needed for one to break free and recollect oneself.

This is the invisible shackles of love.