love laura more

The woman splashing her surplus of coffee into the trash can that's dangerously close to my computer, the man who just asked me if I could "spare any part of a dollar", the little boy on the other side of the glass window, sitting on the bench with his tiny feet swinging back and forth, far above the ground on which the bench legs rest...

any of these humans could be containers carrying incredible stories, and potential art pieces, just like the instance of Laura Lark, who was the inspiration to take an art project farther on learningtoloveyoumore.com.

I walk passed hundreds of faces a day, sometimes looking at them, sometimes remembering their features for a few extra seconds after they're behind me. It's a rarity that I contemplate what their lives may be like, what stories they have to tell. I buzz around the city getting my errands done, checking the boxes next to my "have-to's" & taking detours for my "want-to's", and I often do this with little thought of those around me.  But when and if I do enter a more altruistic mode

, incredible things happen.

Somehow the world seems to rotate with a little more ease. 

The beautiful undercurrents of life rise to the surface and begin to sparkle for me. 

The typically mundane becomes an inspiration .

Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July began a project that puts the sparkles on display. Turning the interesting life story of Laura Lark into an entire project for others to partake in has stitched a little patch of humanity together, helping us pay attention to each other and realize there is something beautiful and important to learn from those around us. 

I never believed art should isolate, but that it should integrate, catalyze, propel...Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July set a standard for art and remind us in a new way that art is not complete without a conversation, and that success can be measured in the movement it creates.