Sustaining Love: An Arting Conversation

In this conversation, Ruth and Shari take on the subject of love. We’ve created a lot of interesting juxtapositions with the art pairings. It was such a rich topic, we are sharing the entire conversation. Scroll below the video for an image of each pairing, and a set of questions we’d love to engage with you on. Answer them in the comments or just use the questions to have a conversation with someone. The poem we used to complement our discussion is Cruel Irony of Love by Rick Elpers.

Questions

1. What do you think these paintings tell you about love and how it evolves?
2. What are the elements in each case that flow or don’t flow?
3. How do you balance the naughty and the proper that come with love?

Questions

1. What are your expectations about love and how has it effected the choices you made in your life around love?
   • How you see, if you see, that experience represented in this art.
2. What here resonates with your experience with love and what does not?

Questions

1. What do these paintings tell us about the substance of love, in the past, the present and we nurture it for the future?
2. What experiences do you associate with these pieces of art?

Thanks for joining us. Tell us what you think. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on love, the paintings, the poems or Arting.