Private Mail
Private Mail, site-specific installation at Smack Mellon, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. Installation of 1000 personal graphite, ink and hair drawings on 2 3/4" x 1 3/4" paper envelopes. The envelopes are hand-sewn onto monofilament and suspended from floor to ceiling to create a cylinder. The cylinder frames a skylight in the ceiling. All of the drawings face inward towards the center of the cylinder and the open and dated envelope flaps face the outside. The viewer is invited inside the circle through a portal facing the back corner of the room. Two people fit inside the cylinder fairly comfortably. Binoculars are placed twenty feet away from the installation, where viewers can spy the drawings hanging above eye range. 25’ x 8’ x 8’ (night time shot)
Private Mail
Detail of installation while looking up from inside the cylinder of drawings
Private Mail
Detail of drawings suspended on monofilament
Private Mail
Detail of drawings suspended on monofilament
Private Mail
Installed at Western Michigan University
Nibble
Selected drawings from Private Mail
Pencil on 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" envelopes
Doggy Style
Selected drawing from Private Mail
Pencil on 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" envelope
Imprints
Selected drawings from Private Mail
Pencil on 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" envelopes
Let Go
Selected drawing from Private Mail
Pencil on 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" envelope
Clutter
Selected drawings from Private Mail
Pencil on 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" envelopes