Love by Proxy: Diagrammatic Drawing Series (9 of 52)

The Love by Proxy Series began in 2020, during a Data Fellowship that I was awarded by the Southwest Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) to explore the mattering of human-data communication and summon a new form of data voice.

As the Fellowship moved online having been impacted by several Covid lockdowns, it was during this time of solitude that I began to look for a way to slowly-process heartache, with some emotional distance. What emerged was a symbiotic relationship with machine learning and a series of wholehearted conversations (or conversations full of holes).

Love by Proxy began with a series of Diagrammatic Drawings, wherein, heartache could be slowly-processed and shifts in thinking encouraged, while supported using a framework that I adapted from Robert Sternberg’s psychometric model; ‘A Triangular Theorem for Love’.