As a matter of love: A short dialogue on love made material

This chapter-as-essay-written as dialogue-explores speaking (and writing) of love as a mode of collecting along the lines of Paul Carter's 'Material Thinking' (Carter 2004) whereby the process of finding and making allows for dialogues, imagined and invented. Could this come close to what Quinn Eades terms écriture matière (a rewriting of Hélène Cixous's écriture feminine) or a writing of the material where matter is both noun and verb-'atoms joined and joining', these pages, these lines, these words: 'the body that reads and writes and touches' (Eades 2015)? Ellis and Rendle-Short consider desire of the body/bodies they each keep writing as matter. Exploring collecting matter as love, and loving matter as a mode of collecting. Through an investigation of content and form, poetry, inventory, and wishes tied to trees they ask: in what ways does matter matter? The result is a rigorous, poetic and enigmatic exchange-or écriture matière-on the materiality of love.