LOVE LETTERS PROJECT – FINAL EDITION
Client / The Substation
Year / 2015
Identity / Postcard / Installation / Poster / Typography / Website / Art Direction
The technique of letterpress is an antiquarian form of printing, once dominant for over 500 years, but is now, an artisanal method of putting word to paper. For the final edition of The Substation Love Letters Project, it is apt that this technique is married with the finery of poetry and the romanticised form of the postcard, the love letter.
The final poem of a five year series – the final resolution to the many works that came before – is overprinted on cards from the past series of love letters. Each postcard is handprinted; as imperfect as it is unique, as timeworn as it is of the present times.
A collage of all the past love letters, as well as the final poem is installed on the facade of The Substation gallery. This installation credits all the past participants of this project. The last postcard can be picked up from a mailbox in this installation.
