This body of work attempts to encapsulate the profound melancholic longing for a love lost and the effort to overcome these emotions. Communication is at the heart of this work as I chart the arcs of a relationship through the course of its timeline. Facebook message exchanges displayed in the work “All That Glitters Is Not Necessarily Gold” show courtship from the ecstatic beauty of falling in love through to facing inevitable challenges that cannot be resolved. My aim is to memorialise this contemporary and fleeting mode of communication in a tangible and long lasting form posing the question what is lasting communication in a digital age of immediacy and constant contact?