Learning to Love You More

I know that this project may be old to many of you, but after reading Miranda July's book "No one belongs here more than you" I was interested in her work yet again. Her website Learning to Love you More is a collaborative project with regular people. I thought this might interest you because there are a few that I find pretty "collage-y," like the one where you ask a friend to point out all the things that they want in a magazine and you make a collage of it, or where you cover up only part of a photo album page. It inspired me a little to try some new techniques, and I am probably going to make a contribution. You should too!

Assignment #28
Edit a photo album page.

Look through a friend or relative's photo album. Choose a single page that includes details that you find interesting. Take a piece of solid-colored paper that fits over the entire album page and cut one to ten holes in the paper that reveal details of the pictures. These details can be parts of people's bodies, their pets, a cake, a poster, anything you find visually intriguing. These holes should be small, just isolating the details, with holes that are the shape of the thing you are isolating (cake-shaped hole, tiny hole isolating just someone's head, etc.) Give your page a title that includes the name of the person who's photo album you have used. For instance "Erika's trip to Florida," or "Dave and his dog Walter at the Beach."


Assignment #56
Make a portrait of your friend's desires.

Ask a friend or relative if there is a catalogue that they want things from. Maybe it is J. Crew or Facets Multimedia or Toys R US. Get a copy of this catalogue if your friend doesn't have one. Then ask your friend to look through the catalogue and point to everything they really, really want. Not just want, but really, really want. Put a mark next to each of these things. Maybe there will only be two or three. Maybe there will be many. When they are done, carefully cut out each of these things, cut out the objects only, do not include anything surrounding them.Glue them on to a piece of colored paper. Do not write anything on this paper, but scan it and send it to us, along with the name of your friend and their age.

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