Love Letters

Love Letters is a project documenting a year long, long distance relationship. While we broke up after a year, we both kept the letters and artwork that we had sent back and forth to one another. Years later, we reconnected on Facebook and friendship has emerged. I had the idea of collecting this material and doing something with it. This project is the first endeaver towards that end.

Love Letters

Write Me More Often

Author: Thomas Type: Homemade postcard Date: USPS postmark September 19 1991   This postcard was made by chopping up a painting I had made on a piece of canvas board. I can’t paint worth shit, but I’ve always believed that the more I did it- and play with the paint, […]

Love Letters

January 27th #1

Author: Jason Type: Letter Date: January 27, 1992 Artwork: Xerox image and sketches/scribbles This is the first letter that was sent in an envelope together with another behind it, which I posted before, and linked here. Aside from how sweet this love letter is, with a curatorial eye, I look […]

Love Letters

February 27, 1992

Author: Thomas Date: USPS stamp Febuary 27, 1992 Artwork: Type R and Type C prints Size: 6″ x 10″ In the old days before digital photography, therer were a few ways to print color photographs. If you had a color negative, you would make a Type C print; if you […]

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Desperate

Author: Jason Date Jan 27, 1992   This letter was with another single page letter which was dated. The folds align in such a way, I think they arrived in the same envelope. But, I’m saving the other to post on another day. One of the things I loved about […]

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Maybe I’m Obsessing

Author: Thomas Date: USPS Oct 5, 1991 Artwork: Xerox, sketch On recycled paper bag   Ok, I’ve put off publishing a long letter, and so here is one, and one that shares more personal content about myself. Before I began working on this project, it occurred to me that Jason […]

Love Letters

My Belief in Love

Author: Jason Date: USPS stamp: December 3, 1991 Artwork: paint/ postcard   One of the most striking things looking back at the correspondence from both Jason, as well as myself, is the way issues of love and death are intertwined in our communications. This budding relationship was happening right in […]

Love Letters

The First Thing I Remember

Author: Thomas Artwork: Silver gelatin print, rubber stamp Date: USPS stamp- shows March, but the date isn’t legible. My art stamp date is March 6, 1992 The first thing I remember about you were your eyes, beautiful, intense, and I remember standing in the hallway downstairs and I asked what […]

Love Letters

PEACE!

Author: Jason Artwork: Mixed media/painting, rubber stamp Date: USPS stamp December 17, 1991 PEACE! I had selected a letter from Jason to post today, and had it scanned and everything ready to go, until hesitation crept in. The letter is fairly telling and personal, and while I asked Jason if […]

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Eyes

Type:  Postcard Author: Thomas Date: USPS stamp: Oct 2 1991, card dated 9/29 Artwork included: Postcard was a collaborative project with a friend Mark. I provided him with some photographs and he collaged them into this card. 9/29 Got your “Chicken Vienna Sausage” card today. It’s great. You’re pretty wonderful. […]

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My Heart is Blue

Type: Hand-made card Author: Jason Date: Unknown, assume early February 1992 Artwork included: xerox of sketchbook I’m listening to Lucinda Williams as I work on this post.  There is another singer in my head that I just can’t name, and I thought listening to Lucinda would help me recall her […]