Love is a path of least resistance
MDF installation
Royal College of Art, London
2025
The piece takes the shape of a typical British building facade, split across two freestanding panels. In one window, I appear upside down, stretching out from the top floor. In the other, my cat waits below on the ledge. The gesture between us — reaching and receiving — became the core of the work.
The sentence, Love is a path of least resistance, came to me as a way of understanding this moment. Not as a weakness or passivity, but as a kind of intuitive motion — the ease with which we move toward what we care for, even across awkward distances or strange architecture. This piece is a reflection on how affection often flows most naturally when we stop trying to force direction — when we simply respond, reach, and connect.
From the windows, large sweeps of low-density polyethylene fall like curtains — soft, oversized, and strangely fluid against the rigid grid of the facade. They pull the architecture into motion, almost like breath. For me, they speak to the way emotional truths leak out of structures that were meant to contain them — the way tenderness can warp and soften even the hardest edges.