Love Token II is an elongated paper piece that taps into my ongoing archival research on romantic decomposition. The work departs from 19th-century love tokens: small, intimate objects gifted to a lover and “authenticated” through personal traces such as a lock of hair, a lipstick mark, or carved initials.

Instead of following that logic, I try to hack it: rather than adding real personal elements, I introduce fabricated ones. Here, the handwritten text on the silk-lined paper addresses a fictional man, turning the token into a false proof of intimacy. The work asks what happens when a romantic gesture is deliberately staged, and whether a counterfeit token can still feel emotionally charged.