We Intend To Be Happy

I am very excited to invite you all to Make Them Love You, "a series of hand-painted signs exhibited throughout the city of Chennai that explore the negotiation between desires and exterior space."

My husband Jason and I created a portrait of ourselves called "We intend to be happy" where we appear in camouflage outfits sharing a proper English breakfast tea in bed. We thought it was the least we could do after after having fought against the immigration laws of three different countries in order to have our rights as a couple recognized! Our inescapable need to love each over the years faced an indiscernible force of three governments with their border agencies, a dozen of churches and family organizations and those 7,001,084 Californians who wanted to void our marriage when they voted for proposition 8 last November 2008.

We created this commercial sign to promote our couple and the possibilities of love to overcome geopolitical borders and the definitions of terms such as partner, family member, couple, loving relationship that border officers utilize in entry clearance forms.

Please read the attached press release for a more clever description of the show and of our project