The painting ’49 Frames of Love’ "… addresses the idea of what is hidden, covered up or concealed in love. To Ash, love is such a force that you do not always see every part of it – what is hidden below the surface. With this piece of work, Ash is capturing the many different levels and layers of love, connection and extraordinary bonds shared through time and experiences."
Nathalie Martin, Director, Heartbreak Gallery, Marylebone, London.

The visual audio film ’49 Frames of Love’ is a collaborative piece with donations from 49 people about what encapsulates love for them. It plays with the idea of individual and collective notions of love, and of hidden love. Film normally runs at 24 frames a second, the idea of 49 frames a second suggests there will be images that will go unseen by the conscious mind. This is the concept - there are frames that flash by so quickly, you hardly see them, but in fact, most of the film runs conventionally at 24 FPS. This is a filmic collage. It ran on a loop during the exhibition.

THOUGHTS THAT EXPAND THE THEME
Love is usually played out behind closed doors.
Relationships work or don't - they are something not possible to understand, and that you don’t get as an outsider.
Relationships you do get as an outsider are still private and hidden.
Relationships are sometimes secret - they might be an affair, or just secret because the perception is that friends or family or society might disapprove.
There are things we didn’t know about ourselves but discover through love, through depth of love, that are in our subconscious and so on...

The number 49 was not chosen for any reason except that the multiple of 7 x 7 worked really well on the canvas, and because 7 is a great number that is well versed in divisions: 7 days of the week, 7 days of creation etc...

Other paintings in the series expand this idea and allow us to get closer - to reveal the depth of feeling within a complex relationship over time. There are 49 smaller works on paper and canvas that have come out of the larger work of 49 Frames of Love. Individually, they explore and expand the surprising nature of love through the language and linkages between us and our consciousness of love. They are about the language of Love, and how we communicate this most profound emotion.