Tara Ryan

Limerence, 2025

In 1979 Dorothy Tennon coined the term Limerence in her book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love.  
Limerence is a state of chronic romantic infatuation toward another person, fuelled by their own fantasies.  
A two-sided interactive diptych, exploring limerence and telling a story on what I thought was love.  
  
20 Polaroids which tells the story of my personal journey of limerence as a woman, to which, when the images are reversed, revels the Pierrot or Pierrette clown to symbolize and represent the truth of limerence.