The Letter Project: Poste Restante

Letters lay hoarded in bundles and interred in shoeboxes. An airletter’s existence – inscribed with the hand of friend or family and sent across the world c/o Poste Restante, so light and strong – makes memory tangible. Yet the words are unexpectedly redundant; it is something else that endures. These letters say how we cared when we took time over connecting. Handwritten letters are counter-cultural now. 

Does it add to the world to keep these artefacts of a predigital age and youthful adventure? 

Small actions matter. These human traces are to be treasured, honoured. Each piece made is a long meditation on the writer and our relationship, the stitches connecting us again. The letters are torn up now, reincarnated as votive vessels that hold more than memories.