As much as I enjoy receiving messages, emails, Zoom calls inquiring how I am doing, it is a lot. In the last few weeks of quarantine, I’ve felt increasingly overwhelmed by technological communication.
I really enjoyed this project, especially because it combined my love of art, and my love of mail. Snail Mail My Email was a community art project where volunteers would transform strangers' emails into handwritten letters, and include a hand-drawn image of the email-writer’s request. Years back, I took part in a project called Snail Mail My Email, which is sadly now defunct. Yes, perhaps the adage “It’s the thought that counts” is really about snail mail senders! However, the nice thing about sending snail mail is that by simply taking the effort to send a physical “hello”, you’ve already shown the recipient that you care. I find that for most, sitting down to write a letter is an incredibly daunting experience, which I understand to a point. Most of my friends and acquaintances have a good laugh at my single-handed attempts of reviving the glory days of both USPS and the hand-written letter, but I believe this is because most of them haven’t received real mail in a very long time. By mail, I mean legitimate letters, cards or postcards, amd not some junkmail from the ever-perseverant weekly mailer called “Retail-me-Not”. I’ve always been someone who has loved receiving mail, particularly lately while we’re in self-isolation.
A few recent Send a Letter postcard requests.
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