(Michelle Tonkin)
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Make Love Your Practise
Location
George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne.
Date
October 2022
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Exhibited in the group show Radical Self Care and Sustainable Artmaking at George Paton Gallery, 'Make Love Your Practise' invites viewers into a simple yet profound ritual: inflating a balloon with the conscious intention of love.
The work reflects Damchö's ongoing focus on the role of intention within art-making — a practice where material action is infused with ethical and emotional consideration. Here, air itself becomes a medium for transmitting care, presence, and relationality.
Influenced by bell hooks’ proposition that love is a verb, not a noun, and by Didier Maleuvre’s reflection that love is the true vehicle of art, Make Love Your Practise quietly repositions creative action as an active engagement with love, rather than production or mastery.
The work forms part of a broader inquiry into how art can serve as a space for radical self-care, collective connection, and the small but vital gestures that sustain life and meaning.
