The Elaborations Project

One of the true inspirations for the projects on 39forks.com is a collaborative based site created by Portland based artists Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July called: "Learning to Love You More"

This site has garnered much attention, was represented on display at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and they have really put a lot of work into creating some wonderful things. Mr. Fletcher and Ms. July have become pretty famous, and they continue to do great work. I am truly a fan.

On Learning to Love You More, people can accept assignments (all very interesting and unique), make something on their own, and then email their final product. Then Harrell, Miranda and their people post the assignments to the site in a collection, as you can see when you go there. Of course, feel free to do assignments for LTLYM.

One of the main focuses of LTLYM is to stay within the guidelines as defined for each assignment. After thinking about this extensively, I thought it would be interesting to create a space for people to create and post assignments that elaborate on the given parameters in LTLYM.

Hence, this project. I challenge you to go to Learning to Love You More, find an assignment you like, and create something that is both completing the assignment from your perspective, but at the same time exceeds, elaborates, embellishes, twists, corrupts, or even, if you wish, flat out ignores the parameters that have been set. Email this to me, and i'll post it in the collection.

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