Sherri Murphy, host & curator

Artists:

Whitney Huber

Lisa Kaftori

Joan Giroux

kaleidoscope of influences

Few people are powerful enough, persuasive, persistent, consistent, and charismatic enough to change the world all at once, but everyone has the ability to affect the three feet around them by behaving more ethically, honestly, and compassionately toward those they meet. Just picture it: If more people acted from this space of love, there would be more and more terrain covered. —Sharon Salzberg

kaleidoscope of influences explores individual and community agency. The question “How do you measure your three feet of influence?” is the point of departure for a project about the powerful effects a neighborhood could potentially have on the world.
Artists Whitney Huber, Joan Giroux and Lisa Kaftori liken an individual neighbor to a butterfly and a neighborhood to a kaleidoscope of butterflies—a shimmering, reflective group of change agents—the kaleidoscope effect—the potential of small gestures of kindness and bravery magnified exponentially…

kaleidoscope of influences invites friends and neighbors, in Chicago and beyond, to share their stories of how they measure their three feet of influence.

Please share your thoughts on personal and neighborhood agency at: 3feet@kaleidoscopeofinfluence.org
Or leave a response in a sharing box at the project site:
4514 South St. Lawrence, Chicago

Responses in the form of stories, drawings, poems, letters, postcards, songs, photos, videos etc. will inform the contents of the kaleidoscope of influences website.
Joan, Whitney, and Lisa look forward to hearing from you.

Curious? Take a look at www.kaleidoscopeofinfluence.org