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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 designed and managed the web site.

Participants accepted an assignment, completed it by following the simple but specific instructions, sent in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and their work got posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments was intended to guide people towards their own experience.

Source: LTLYM

  • Make a child's outfit in adult size
  • Make a neighbourhood field recording
  • Make a documentary video about a small child
  • Start a lecture series
  • Recreate an object from someone's past
  • Make a poster of shadows
  • Recreate 3 minutes of a fresh air interview
  • Curate an artist's perspective in a public place
  • Draw a constellation from someone's freckles
  • Make a flier of your day
  • Photograph a scar and write about it
  • Get a temporary tattoo of one of Morgan Rozacky's neighbors
  • Recreate the moment after a crime
  • Write your life story in less than a day
  • Hand a windchime on a tree in a parking lot
  • Make a paper replica of your bed
  • Record your own guided meditation
  • Recreate a poster you had as a teenager
  • Illustrate a scene or make an object from Paul Arensmeyer's life story
  • Take a family portrait of two families
  • Sculpt a bust of steve
  • Recreate a scene from Laura Lark's life story
  • Recreate this snapshot (ref: list icon)
  • Cover the song "Don't Dream It's Over"
  • Make a video of someone dancing
  • Design an article of clothing for Mona to crochet
  • Take a picture of the sun
  • Edit a photo album page
  • Make an audio recording of a choir
  • Take a picture of strangers holding hands
  • Spend time with a dying person
  • Draw a scene from a movie that made you cry
  • Braid someone's hair
  • Make a protest sign and protest
  • Ask your family to describe what you do
  • Grow a garden in an unexpected spot
  • Write down a recent argument
  • Act out someone else's argument
  • Take a picture of your parent's kissing
  • Heal yourself
  • Document your bald spot
  • List five events from 1984
  • Make an exhibition of the art in your parent's house
  • Make a "LTLYM" assignment
  • Reread your favourite book from the fifth grade
  • Draw Raymond Carver's Cathedral
  • Re-enact a scene from a movie that made someone else cry
  • Make the saddest song
  • Draw a picture of your friend's friend
  • Take a flash photo under your bed
  • Describe what to do with your body when you die
  • Write the phone call you wish you could have
  • Give advice to yourself in the past
  • Draw the news
  • Photograph a significant outfit
  • Make a portrait of your friend's desires
  • Lipsync to shy neighbor's Garth Brooks cover
  • Record the sound that is keeping you awake
  • Interview someone who has experienced war
  • Write a press release about an everyday event
  • Describe your ideal government
  • Make an educational public plaque
  • Make an encouraging banner
  • Teach us an exercise
  • Perform the phone call someone else wished they could have
  • Make a field guide to your yard
  • Repair something
  • Feel the news
  • Climb to the top of a tree and take a picture of the view
  • Say goodbye
sep 18 2017 ∞
dec 14 2017 +