An exploration of love
How does love translate between two languages? How does food fill in the gaps between two cultures in a relationship?
We started contemplating about these questions in the hope to open up a much more profound dialogue about the linguistics of love and the nuances of communication.
This project aims to provide a set of instructions to create a comfortable space in being engaged (in often) uncomfortable conversations. Through some surface level questions about food and in-depth questions about family and love, we abstractly led the interviewees to think about how food has shaped them as people and how that relates to love. In the final part of the project we collaborated with a chef to curate a recipe consisting of ingredients that our interviewees shared with us as the most essential elements of their cuisine.
We hope that we could expand the project into a much bigger scale involving couples from all continents to create a rich encyclopedia of love and language. Many thanks to Lorenzo and Sofia for accepting our invitation to be the main characters of our research for this very first chapter.
Produced by Zahra Jajarmikhayat + Andrew Roque
Recipe Design Ian Villanueva
Typeface Archive Pro, Designed by Colophon Foundry
Music Our Love by King Midas Sound / Fennesz
©21st Century
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