Hey everyone! We are back safe and sound! Keep a Warm Heart was featured in the show "Texere" at MassArt a few months ago, it went great. Stay tuned for more happenings including another show as well as the next step for the project.
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The Mako Project takes on Chicago, Niko tries to explain Keep a Warm Heart. :) Check out the rest of Mako's documentary videos on their Facebook page!
We're on our way! First set up: Chicago, Illinois! The Mako Project and Keep a Warm Heart arrived on the 4th of July and will be staying till Saturday.
Thank you, Chicago!
Next stop: Omaha, Nebraska!
My sophomore year of art college, I came up with the "heartwarming" idea that I should make a sweater for an anatomical heart. A year and many sweaters later, I finally made one I felt satisfied with. I thought about how to present it as an art piece; but the only thing that felt right was holding it in my hands, and the idea that I wanted to somehow send it around the world. And that's where this project starts.
For the next several months, my friend Niko will be traveling all over the United States. And he's taking my heart-sweater with him!
He'll be showing it to different people that he meets along the way so that they can experience it, and most importantly, be reminded of the joy of keeping a warm heart.
Photos will also be taken of participants in this project and posted here as a record of where we've been and who we've met.
I'll start. Here's a quick one of me in my studio right before I mailed it off today. It's currently in transit to Niko's home in Michigan!
The heart should not be protected. It is from the experiences it goes through that the heart grows to be a stronger and more beautiful part of humanity. Yet one must not let their heart grow cold in the midst of experience. To keep a warm heart is a quality to be greatly appreciated and admired. This object’s function is not to shelter, but to retain one’s own warmth generated from within oneself.
