Lauri Marks Kaye

BROKEN.
I took this photo at our neighborhood taco 🌮shop. The ice machine was broken. An employee taped up a sign that said NO ICE.

What’s happening in Minnesota.
What keeps happening in our cities.
Families ripped apart. People disappeared into a system that runs on fear.

I’m selling this artwork (createforthepeople.com) and donating 100% to the National Immigrant Justice Center, who fight in court for people ICE wants us to forget.

I changed the artwork in the soda labels not to be clever. It’s not cute. It’s grief and rage and helplessness trying to make something out of wreckage.

Making art doesn’t stop raids.
Stickers don’t bring people home.

But looking away or letting others protest feels like complicity.

More Amor ❤️Por Favor! Graffitied hearts, poems, lovebirds in flight—bits and pieces of street art sprayed and plastered across cities, I was excited to return to Tucson🌵and process all that I had seen and create something new.

Before landing it was hard to ignore this pit in my stomach, what’s happening in this country. Every day feels like a challenge, deciding how to respond. —be kind, be generous, help those in need, support those who care about human rights. Share joy and beauty through art.

I’ve had a blast photographing bits and pieces from random taggers, artists both new to me, like WRDSMTH, and icons I’ve admired for years, like Banksy. Their work, now layered with others who want to add their voices through paint, stickers, and paste. Stories evolving with every passerby adding their mark. Amid all the noise and negativity I find myself uplifted by these relentless acts of creativity, joy, and love that color our cities.

I love layering my drawings on top of all this color, creating something new. In this piece the message, at its core, is the same…More Amor Por Favor.





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