On love…
It still floors me how one can be engulfed by love. How deeply and ardently we can feel for another person – so much so that we might write them public declarations of our devotion, as Ayòbámi Adébáyò and Emmanuel Iduma reveal on page 24, or choose to lie on top of them, bodies morphing into one, like the two men in Erica Reade’s Beach Lovers portraits on page 32 (I first saw this exhibition in New York last summer and I am so happy to now be sharing it in Red). Indeed, Skye McAlpine’s newest book, A Table Full Of Love, is her expression of affection in food form, and, as she says, on page 108, ‘There’s no better way to make someone fall head over heels for you…
