About LoveYou2

Welcome! You found my love for you.

I launched LoveYou2 as a Blogspot in November 2010 with the purpose of giving away the original LoveYou2 flier I’d made for my kids. The invitation to people everywhere: Join me in changing the world one love note at a time. The blog invited strangers to print the flier, hang it up, and share their love note stories. Clicking “publish this blog” felt like the scariest, most naked truth I’d known in years. And so began a magical journey that became a way of living—a passion for finding, documenting, installing, and sharing love notes.

I’ve hung thousands of LoveYou2 fliers and stenciled love notes on recycled wood in over 30 countries and hundreds of cities around the world. LoveYou2 has received hundreds of comments and guest submissions about readers’ own experiences writing, finding, and sharing love notes.

Following my brother’s untimely death, I wanted to make it easier access to this transcendental experience of documenting and sharing our love. The LoveYou2 love note templates were born. Through collaborations and large-scale love note installations, the LoveYou2 love note templates are now available in six languages: Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Porteguese, and Italian. A casual version and memorial set along with 11 x 17-inch giant love notes complete the English version love note templates.

To honor the everyday, unsung people who do the hard work of showing up for others, I created the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude. Caping people who are rocking this world as only they can is one of my greatest delights. And who doesn’t need a cape? With now over 100 “cape-ables”, I dream of a Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude reunion dance party.  

It’s your turn! Join me in the love note revolution! LoveYou2.org is a hub for the exchange of love in its many forms; a place to practice, to be inspired, to share, a place to get love when you need some, and give love when you have it.

About the Artist

In the fleeting moments between what is and what could be, Shannon Weber finds inspiration. A San Francisco-based social entrepreneur, artist, and author, she is captivated by liminal spaces and the possibility of what lies in between. Learning homemaking, crafting, and repair skills from her parents, Shannon has transformed these foundational experiences into her public art practice. She learned stencil cutting from street artist Jeremy Novy. She creates ephemeral art using everyday items and found objects, infusing her work with theory and observations drawn from her training as a social worker. Influenced by Punk, street art, queer culture, and the maker and DIY movements, her art reflects a deep commitment to connection and community.

Through her project LoveYou2.org, she creates public displays of affection, covertly hanging stenciled art pieces in public spaces and facilitating interactive installations at events and in communities. Her art has been hung without permission in over 30 countries and hundreds of cities worldwide.

Shannon has been a commissioned altarista for Dia de los Muertos/The Marigold Project from 2013 to 2019. She presented “Get Love. Give Love.” at TEDx Encinitas in 2014. Her interactive art installations were featured at Burning Man Center Camp Cafe in 2014, 2015, and 2018. She created bespoke interactive window displays at 826 Valencia from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, Shannon received the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Public Service. In 2024, Shannon completed two residencies at Four Chicken Gallery: Grudge Relief Program and Hope Factory.

Currently, Shannon is exploring possibilities under the concept of a Public Works Division of LoveYou2.org: 

Public Works is a series of new interactive, experiential public art installations exploring regenerative practices and our connections with each other. As communities, we rely on infrastructure to support utilities, roads, libraries, etc. What if we had publicly available and socially acceptable spaces to repair harms caused in relationships and to practice new ways of being in connection? I am imagining a relational public work infrastructure—the spaces to repair relationships and practice new ways of being in connection. How might we create spaces for the alchemy of these irreplaceable intangibles? How might we reimagine connection and power in ways that are liberatory and disruptive so that regenerative practices can emerge?