Project 03 — Art
Akashi, the Fluidity of Love
Line Drawing — Certificate of Love's Fluidity
Kaoru Yoshida / ANNA DIAMOND 2024
Silver 925, lab-grown diamond, water based paint
Gallery exclusive / please inquire
Accompanying ANNA DIAMOND's Fluidity of Love Collection, this work was created in collaboration with line artist Kaoru Yoshida. Starting from the phrase "the fluidity of love," it treats silver from urban mines as a canvas, an art piece adorned with delicate line drawings and diamonds.
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Concept
A token of love, beyond the ring.
The diamond as a token of love is, in most cases, given from one person to another. It shines on only one person's fingertip, and at times sleeps quietly in a box.
Might there be a freer, newer token of love? Born from that question, this work is a new proposal for a "token of love" that stays close to the space where two people's love exists.
The Moment Two Lives Intersect
Silver from urban mines is shaped into a plate, and upon it a canvas is spread. There, two lines drawn from different past editions by Kaoru Yoshida are rendered. Like two people vowing their love, the two lines that have walked different lives cross upon a single plate. At their intersection, a diamond quietly shines.
What awaits is the beauty of aging.
This work accompanies the "Fluidity of Love Collection." What this collection emphasizes is that the very act of changing is the essence of love. This work makes that "fluidity of love" visible.
Pure silver deepens with the passage of time, gradually taking on a quiet darkness. And as the years accumulate, the contrast between the silver, the line drawing, and the diamond grows sharper, and its brilliance becomes richer and deeper still, increasing across time.
Not worn, but carried within a space.
The choice to display a diamond in the space two people share. Within the shifting flow of time, the silver deepens, and watching that change, two lives layer together.
With time, love changes its form as its brilliance grows. Five years, ten years. In the light of each day, a token of love that shows new expressions. Shifting, yet forever there. Love is not simply being eternal, but watching its changing beauty together.
We hope this work becomes a presence that gently calls to mind the beauty of the fluidity of love, within the daily life the two of you share.
Artist
Kaoru Yoshida
Line artist. Graduate of the Graphic Design department at Tama Art University. She draws lines that resemble the female form. Alongside presenting her work in solo exhibitions, she provides drawings for logos, vessels, and more.
