Dead Letters Office (2018)

Dead Letters Office features five letters, written to five distinct— and real— individuals in the artist’s life. Some of the included letters in Dead Letters Office are complaints, others goodbyes, others admissions of love. The artist folded each letter into the shape of a peace dove, rendering them unreadable unless these peace symbols are entirely dismantled. Since the artist did not want these to ever be received by their subjects, they mailed their doves in a single envelope to an address that does not actually exist-- 594 St Paul Lane, Cumberland RI. Undeliverable and devoid of any return address information, these letters will ultimately end up in a Dead Letters Office— the cemetery of undeliverable mail— where these peace doves will live out their lives without ever meeting their initial recipients.