Call for Submissions to TransLOVE 2008!

I sat in cold of the English late Summer of Sefton Park and watched passersby. A favourite past time of mine to people watch. Families with children in toe, youths on bikes and skateboards and then I noticed an old couple. They were holding hands and looking at each other as there was no one else about in their own universe.

I thought to myself, how many of us reach that point where an implicit connection is made and lasts a life time. Then it does not have to be a life time. Love is something that happens everywhere, it is just that we forget tied up with the mundane humdrum of life and things that actually do not really matter. At worst ignorance, greed and selfishess, war, prejudice and more the world over make us forget what life is about and we should express more those feelings that makes us feel good and give us a sense of living and being.

I propose this art project to motivate and encourage such, if but for a moment to remind ourselves.

Love is a constellation of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. The meaning of love varies relative to context. Romantic love is seen as an ineffable feeling of intense attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships. Though often linked to personal relations, love is often given a broader signification, a love of humanity, of nature, with life itself, or a oneness with the Universe, a universal love or karma. Love can also be construed as Platonic love, religious love, familial love, and, more casually, great affection for anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, to include activities and foods. This diverse range of meanings in the singular word love is often contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for love, reflecting the concept's depth, versatility, and complexity. (Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love)

Call for Submissions
This is open to all.
- Choose a place that is important to you and someone close.
- Take a camera with you and asked a passerby, someone you do not know, to take a photograph of you and your partner, as you express your love to them.
- Email the image to transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk with your name and date.
The image will be exhibited on-line at www.transvoyeur.com from January 2008.

Remember … Tell those close to you everyday you love them!

Closing Date: 31 December 2007.

Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
(UK Projects Co-ordinator/Artist)
Transvoyeur
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.transvoyeur.com