About Street : Some words on the why and the what
Copyright © All Rights Reserved - Lauren Klarfeld 2015
This is for the restless and the rebels...
To those who want to grow before they want to age.
To those who want to want more than they need to need.
To those that are seeking homes to be celebrated in rather than tolerated in.
To those that want to learn rather than being taught.
To those who know the value of humanity.
To those who believe more in hope than in expectations.
To those who don’t believe in possession but in generosity.
To those who believe in self-love first before loving others.
To those who believe in hard work.
To those who want to do life rather than have life do them.
To those that want to live their own reality rather than that of others.
To those that search for better questions than answers.
To those that want to create themselves rather than find themselves.
And to those who've always felt their brains move faster than their feet.
This is a book in the making, for the artists and the dreamers, for the travellers and the rebels within us. Be it that you are a rebel now or a rebel in the making.
This is a book of quotes unveiling the 21st century traveller. Why he leaves and what he may find. A book in the making to transmit hope and motivation.
To those who want to grow before they want to age.
To those who want to want more than they need to need.
To those that are seeking homes to be celebrated in rather than tolerated in.
To those that want to learn rather than being taught.
To those who know the value of humanity.
To those who believe more in hope than in expectations.
To those who don’t believe in possession but in generosity.
To those who believe in self-love first before loving others.
To those who believe in hard work.
To those who want to do life rather than have life do them.
To those that want to live their own reality rather than that of others.
To those that search for better questions than answers.
To those that want to create themselves rather than find themselves.
And to those who've always felt their brains move faster than their feet.
This is a book in the making, for the artists and the dreamers, for the travellers and the rebels within us. Be it that you are a rebel now or a rebel in the making.
This is a book of quotes unveiling the 21st century traveller. Why he leaves and what he may find. A book in the making to transmit hope and motivation.
What is the project :
Schopenhauer once said that “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” – and if saying goodbye every day to travelers thought me anything, it is that our hello’s with people should be as a sincere and welcoming as possible whenever possible - it is after all hard to say whether our goodbye's will be the last we ever say, and hard to guess the beauty in each of us if we don´t make the effort to look deeper.
In the last years and drawing from my personal experiences in life and travels, I wanted to research how other people experience travel and by doing so, seek the beauty that is within each person. For the sake of searching for humanity (and possibly for the sake of not losing hope in it either).
The following book-in-the-making is a collection of quotes I asked strangers and fellow travellers to leave me. It all started in 2014 as I started travelling solo. It is a collection of orignal notes all left in their original handwriting. Be it on the back of pages from my notebooks, napkins, posters torn from walls in the street, receipts, plane tickets and so on...All of them are authentic and were written in the spur of the moment, usually minutes before I said goodbye. Each one of these people held a quote, mantra or way of thinking that they kept around for their own roads in life.
In the last years and drawing from my personal experiences in life and travels, I wanted to research how other people experience travel and by doing so, seek the beauty that is within each person. For the sake of searching for humanity (and possibly for the sake of not losing hope in it either).
The following book-in-the-making is a collection of quotes I asked strangers and fellow travellers to leave me. It all started in 2014 as I started travelling solo. It is a collection of orignal notes all left in their original handwriting. Be it on the back of pages from my notebooks, napkins, posters torn from walls in the street, receipts, plane tickets and so on...All of them are authentic and were written in the spur of the moment, usually minutes before I said goodbye. Each one of these people held a quote, mantra or way of thinking that they kept around for their own roads in life.
Why the project :
Because it is about the people you meet in your travels more than anything. It was about the freedom to choose who and what to keep close. It was about the freedom of attachment and detachment and giving others the liberty of it. It was about the freedom to say hello and goodbye without any expectations. It was about living the moment with strangers who became soul-mates for a night and not expect anything in return other than to wish them success and happiness for the future. Whether you were ever going to see them again was unimportant but always a hope. It was a kind of freedom to enjoy an experience and a moment with someone that way and continue life with one more connection, one more proof that we are not as alone as we think.
Though technology has made keeping connections easier today - they rarely if ever keep them alive. Rather than depending on today's tools of communication to keep an ongoing connection alive - I asked of these strangers to leave me bits of themselves instead - quotes or knowledge they wished to share and were personal to them. As each goodbye always takes a small part of ourselves away the more attached we grow to people - I wanted to ask in return a small part of them to leave me because it taught me everyday not to underestimate the chances we have of meeting people and learning something from them - voluntarily or involuntarily.
My name is Lauren Klarfeld. And this is my collection of messages from strangers in the world.
Though technology has made keeping connections easier today - they rarely if ever keep them alive. Rather than depending on today's tools of communication to keep an ongoing connection alive - I asked of these strangers to leave me bits of themselves instead - quotes or knowledge they wished to share and were personal to them. As each goodbye always takes a small part of ourselves away the more attached we grow to people - I wanted to ask in return a small part of them to leave me because it taught me everyday not to underestimate the chances we have of meeting people and learning something from them - voluntarily or involuntarily.
My name is Lauren Klarfeld. And this is my collection of messages from strangers in the world.
