MAIL ART: NYC to SF, Summer 2005

This piece was a gargantuan process that began in the sweaty New York City summer and emerged in 360 pieces in San Francisco for an opening. The collaborative creation of this project was born of great expanses between coasts, the beauty and tragedy of long distance love more over the sweet sentimentality of a love that cannot be. The narrative behind this imagery of a map of the country is intended to represent two cities, would-be lovers, New York in love with lovely lady San Francisco. Each state is collaged of found paper and atop this collage lies another that reads, “ Where does our love go?” This massive collage is cut into 360 postcard-sized pieces. On the back side of these pieces there are over three hundred separate messages and drawings, a chaotic jumble of ideas with no cohesion, created by over 100 participants in one night at a gathering in NYC, entitled “the postage party.” All 360 pieces were sent as postcards from New York to San Francisco, and all but four arrived safely.

MAIL ART: SF to NYC, Summer 2006

In the same vein as the previous year's project, a large collage was created out of a decade of images, with a photogram of palmistry laid over them. The collage was then cut into 140 postcards, each adorned on the reverse side with messages, drawings, collage, etc., and sent from San Francisco to New York. The piece was then reassembled for a group show at the Live With Animals gallery/collective in Brooklyn, titled, "Fast Forward / Rewind." The piece was one of many that drew conceptually upon the theme of time, from obsolete prophecies and predictions of the future to fluid fictional archeology.