… and there’s a book as well.

With a kick-A cover.

Learning to Love You More

Maybe everyone but me was already aware of this interactive art project created by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. It’s been around since 2002, but I only stumbled upon it last night, and it reinvigorated my sense of joy surrounding art and its purposes. Which sounds kind of high-falutin’, but this project is anything but that. At www.learningtoloveyoumore.com, there are over sixty art “assignments” dreamt up by July and Fletcher, as well as many posted completions from regular folks all over the world. Check them out, you won’t be sorry.

Assignment #1 asks us to take a pink baby’s jumper and turn it into an adult-sized garment:

Here is one great response.

More info from the website:
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant’s documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 5000 people have participated in the project.