Large outdoor letters spelling “LOVE,” constructed from many colorful padlocks, installed against a red brick wall in Toronto’s Distillery District.

If Anything Remains, Let It Be Love

Summer 2022 · Film Photography/FM2
Distillery District, Toronto, Canada

Large outdoor letters spelling “LOVE,” constructed from many colorful padlocks, installed against a red brick wall in Toronto’s Distillery District.

I have always been drawn to the word love.
Whenever I see it—on a wall, in a window, in passing—I instinctively lift my camera.

Maybe it’s because I keep asking myself what remains after everything else is stripped away.
Roles change. Places change. Even identities shift with time.

But if I could unravel myself thread by thread,
if only one thing were left at the very center,
I hope it would be love.

Not the grand or dramatic kind—
just the quiet, steady kind.
The kind that stays.