Learning To Love You More

Learning To Love You More is a great new project by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designed the web site and seems to be able to manages the tons of updates every week.

The concept is very simple and powerful, post an assignment and let strangers take part in it. They then send back a report with ie: photos and are added to the site. Some of them are then recontacted to send the physical version of their assignment to a random location where July and Fletcher host an art exhibition.

I discovered this site a few minutes ago and I’m already in love with it! It seems that whole families and school classes even took part in the process. I think Social Distraction needs to try this out too then.

Latest assignment (taken from the site):

Assignment #70
Say goodbye.

Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye. It just feels easier to keep holding on. But in the long run it’s usually a good idea to let go, it’s the daring thing to do. It allows room for new things, for transformation. And maybe the goodbye isn’t even forever, but you can’t know until you really say goodbye and mean it. In some cases, goodbye is really the end, and good riddance! For this assignment, say goodbye to all the things you need to let go of: bad habits, dead people, alive people, ex-boyfriends and girlfriends, self-destructive feelings and behaviors, jobs, projects, re-occuring thoughts, etc.
Write it as a simple list:
Goodbye Bill.
Goodbye wetting the bed.
Good bye interrupting people when they are talking.
etc.

It can be as long or as short as you like. And, most importantly, take a moment with each one to really say goodbye. This isn’t a catalogue of your fears and faults, this is a ceremony to bid them farewell.Please don’t send us HELLOS, only goodbyes.