A closed keepsake box covered in sunflower-print paper, its corners worn, on a plain cloth.
LOVE IS THE MESSAGE Contact

LOVE IS THE MESSAGE is a design practice that looks at our mundane and profound experiences with equal measure.

We share what we see beneath the surface and invite others to do the same.

We believe this practice compounds into fulfilling work coming from a deeper space we call heritage.

heritage projects

An architect's rendering of a long bar and gallery interior, viewed from the front, with a handwritten note in the margin. The finished room at night: a crowd in silhouette watches a film projected on the wall, beside a chalkboard beer menu and the LITM sign over the bar.
LITMArt and company
A pencil sketch of a bucket bag with measurements: a leather strap, a knitted body, bottom and side views. The finished raffia bucket bag with a brown leather strap, resting on a stone ledge above a river.
JELYNNETravel companions
A notebook page of pen sketches under the word NATURE: squares, woven lines and rice-terrace contours, with notes for APO and JELYNNE. The finished oil: a small teardrop-shaped glass bottle of golden oil with a cork stopper, alone on a white surface.
APOBeauty in a bottle

our process

It begins with approaching archiving as art.

Letters.
Photographs.
Ordinary but meaningful objects.
The places in the world that felt like home.

Archiving is a way of paying attention.
And a source of material for new work.

Discover Archiving as Artistic Practice

A zine by Martha Tenney and Zakiya Collier. PDF.

A typed pen-pal letter from June 1989 that begins Dear Jelynne and is signed Rebeca, decorated with a heart sticker, a flower sticker and an orange smiley face.

define your heritage

A family practice.
A material you know well.
An idea that keeps returning.

Decide what heritage means to you.
Create from there.

Black and white: through the window of a New York subway car, Jelynne stands on the platform, beyond a steel pole and a row of seats.

meet the designer

Born in Manila and based in New York, Jelynne Jardiniano Morse works across heritage ventures, archiving and storytelling.

To create from the heart and trust its transformative power.

Usher in a new world that shares our mission.

contact

What would you like to carry forward?

A family practice.
A material you know well.
An idea that keeps returning.

Back to the studio

Archiving As Artistic Practice, or Your Project Isn’t Done Yet!

A zine by Martha Tenney and Zakiya Collier, produced for MFA Brown Art on Governor’s Island, 2019. Shared here at the authors’ invitation to copy and distribute it freely.

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A pen-pal letter, June 1989

The same typed letter at full size.