Love's Easy Tears
© Francesco GioiaLove’s Easy Tears is a fractured ode to vintage beauty and emotional residue.
Using fragments of mid-century magazines, each collage reconstructs desire, memory, and identity as something both tender and volatile.
Faces are split, gestures loop endlessly, and floral or symbolic motifs interrupt the coherence of the self. This is not nostalgia, but erosion, a slow unraveling of how we once imagined love, longing, and the feminine image.
The series borrows its title from a Cocteau Twins song, evoking the soft ache of something beautiful falling apart.
At its core, Love’s Easy Tears explores the performance of femininity, the aesthetics of romance, and the violence of visual culture. These collages raise questions about the construction of beauty in media, the way women have historically been fragmented into parts, eyes, lips, gestures, and how memory distorts the image over time.
There’s also a subtle dialogue with desire and melancholy: how love is consumed, reassembled, and ultimately abstracted.
Through repetition, layering, and disruption, the series gestures toward both personal memory and collective visual memory, inviting viewers to question what remains when the surface is shattered.
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