Letters to Strangers
Letters to strangers is an exploratory project. I'm interested in the role that wonder plays in everyday life and in this project have chosen to leave my art in public places hoping to incite wonder in the people who find it.
The images below were put into envelopes and left in parks, restaurants, libraries, buses, trains, coffee shops, art galleries and taped up on various walls.
The above images are from a collaboration with Joseph Castaneda. I took the photographs and arranged the compositions and he wrote the poetry that rests between the images.
As I left these envelopes I documented the process in the same collage style.
afterwards, i got the documentation as well as the originals and used all the images in a temporary installation which was also documented.
now i'm continuing the project by using boxes instead of envelopes. some boxes have pieces of super 8 film in them that i got from the cutting bin of the cinema students at sfsu.
The images below were put into envelopes and left in parks, restaurants, libraries, buses, trains, coffee shops, art galleries and taped up on various walls.
The above images are from a collaboration with Joseph Castaneda. I took the photographs and arranged the compositions and he wrote the poetry that rests between the images.
As I left these envelopes I documented the process in the same collage style.
afterwards, i got the documentation as well as the originals and used all the images in a temporary installation which was also documented.
now i'm continuing the project by using boxes instead of envelopes. some boxes have pieces of super 8 film in them that i got from the cutting bin of the cinema students at sfsu.
posted by Carina Downing at
7.9.06
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