Love Invades Portland
June 9, 2007
Pink: a (love) courier service is both a real life courier service and a site-specific art installation. Pink got started in Austin, Texas when a team of volunteer artists and cyclists, under the creative vision of conceptual artist Jaclyn Pryor and with funding from a private foundation, converted an empty downtown storefront into a small and temporary factory to create love notes. In the course of two short weeks, 2007 people visited pink, wrote love notes roled tightly and stuffed into bottles, and watched as pink-clad love couriers delivered them, by bicycle, throughout the city.
Pink is now on tour! They'll be in Portland June 9th-June 23rd, as part of Pedalpalooza festival. Their shop, where you can go to write a love note, is called the Love Factory it is located downtown at 318 SW Taylor.
Best of all...
...It's free!
Each bottle is decorated with a hand stitched letter of the person's first name. Notes can be romantic or friendly. Jaclyn says that in Austin a lot of the notes were sent from one coworker to another, just a gesture of encouragement or thanks.
In order to make this ambitious project happen, the Love Factory needs volunteers. I can think of almost no better way to spend a day than to deliver love notes and make people's days! For more info on volunteering, see the Pink website.
A tech volunteer will be mapping the notes, where they go and if recipients send a note after receiving one. As an artist, Jaclyn likes to work big. She is attracted to the idea of artwork that spreads through the community and takes on a life of its own.
Look out Portland, the love is about to spread!
Posted by orbike at June 9, 2007 9:15 AM
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This is the coolest raddest idea ever. I'm sending notes all week long. long live love!
Posted by: Tony at June 10, 2007 6:54 PM
I LOVE this project. I heart it. I am enamored. I can already think of a long list of people who I think need to have some love delivered to the doorstep. I can't believe it doesn't cost anything. Do you know if they deliver in Beaverton?
Posted by: Jen at June 11, 2007 1:23 AM
No Jen they don't go to beaverton because of hills and stuff I think. but they suggest that if the person WORKS in Portland maybe you could send the note to where they work and I think that's a good idea because I have someone I'd like to send a note to who lives in Beaverton. This handsome bike riding stud... he doesn't even know I have a crush on him... hence my anonymous name here....
Posted by: LoveRider at June 11, 2007 4:11 AM
Right up my alley! I am going on my way over there today on my lunch break. Thank you.
Posted by: Ben at June 12, 2007 4:48 PM
what are the geographical boundaries of service?
Posted by: anele at June 13, 2007 10:35 PM
Hi Anele,
The boundaries are Sprinwater to Columbia and the east edge of the West Hills to I-205. They are a little vague about the West Hills area. Since they're not from this area, they're reluctant to go up in the hills and they have limited time/volunteers so they're trying to keep it simple.
You can listen to a radio piece about the project here:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/portlandtransport/kboobike_20070607.mp3
Posted by: Team ORbike at June 14, 2007 1:46 AM