The music that accompanies the original Spoken Word piece is written and composed by Lisa Lee, from scratch, using Reason and Ableton Live.  The video collage was arranged by Lisa Lee.  Images: courtesy of Google Images.

Made For More is an interrelated media look at high hopes and dreams deferred.  It is inspired by the fight with circumstance, apparent in lives of many of the patrons who frequent the silver line bus, from Dudley Station to Down Town Boston.

From scrap to sculpture! This likeness of a bus is to represent my experience riding the silver line of the MBTA, from Dudley Station to Downtown Boston and back.  Upon first glance at many of the patrons, all one might conclude is that they don't 'fit' into mainstream society.  Upon deeper observation these are citizens who've been presented with struggles they would change if it were easy.  At birth, there were likely high hopes and  expectations for each ... Each, when made,  was 'Made For More', but life 'happened'.  This video installation is dedicated to them.  I carry hope for them, for the miraculous.

Special thanks goes to Erik Levy and Save That Stuff, in Somerville, Massachusetts, for their generous contribution to this work.