Posted/Unposted 2019 Submission - Damaged by Sea Water
Posted/Unposted is a project curated by Imi Maufe (NOR) and Lina Nordenström (SE) who worked with 25 invited artists, printmakers and visual poets from the Nordic Countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). For the British Isles version, Imi Maufe invited Angie Butler (UK) to co-curate the exhibition. I was invited with 23 other creative practitioners who use letterpress in the UK/EIRE to contribute to this publishing project. The resulting work spans fifty years of letterpress publishing expertise, illuminating the wealth of innovative letterpress printing that takes place across these countries today.
My Submission, Damaged by Sea Water explores letters lost in the post.
The envelope contains a pamphlet based on a letter lost in an airplane crash, and having been recovered, delivered with the postal marking 'Damaged by Sea Water'. The letter itself chases a response from earlier correspondence that was possibly never received.
The locations listed on the envelope are the sites of real plane crashes where post has been recovered (taken from Bath Postal Museum).
Edition of 50, forty of which were submitted to the project for exhibition and the 23 other practitioners.
My Submission, Damaged by Sea Water explores letters lost in the post.
The envelope contains a pamphlet based on a letter lost in an airplane crash, and having been recovered, delivered with the postal marking 'Damaged by Sea Water'. The letter itself chases a response from earlier correspondence that was possibly never received.
The locations listed on the envelope are the sites of real plane crashes where post has been recovered (taken from Bath Postal Museum).
Edition of 50, forty of which were submitted to the project for exhibition and the 23 other practitioners.