Annie Long is a visual artist working in multi-media sculpture and oils living in Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia
The Shape of Love is inspired by the delicate web of interconnected relationships that weave through our lives and help us to feel love and loved. They take many shapes including familial ties, all kinds of marriages, platonic love, same sex relationships, polyamory, monogamy, serial monogamy, living together, and pet love. Regardless, our bodies and especially our hearts, respond and bloom.
Science now recognises that our hearts are running the show. As the most powerful source of natural electromagnetic energy in the body, this energy can be detected from a distance and directly influences the brain. This body of work explores my intuitive experience of my own relationship energy exchanges and those I observe in others. It aims to capture the dynamic deeper levels of non-verbal communication that are in motion all the time.