#Letter365

Montage of images from the #Letter365 project blog

#Letter365 poster background

The culmination of my year-long project, #Letter365, was an installation at Bridport Arts Centre. #Letter365 was an unfolding artwork created a piece each day for a year. Each day’s artwork was sealed in an envelope and sent to the Arts Centre where they were held unopened until the installation.. People were able to invest in the project by buying a day – unseen. Only sold pieces were opened. I documented the progress of the project on the #Letter365 blog

: Pretending to enjoy tearing up my work

: Members of the public helped me destroy the unopened pieces that hadn’t sold

: There was plenty of discussion at the #Letter365 Preview Evening

: Part of the grid of unopened envelopes

: The envelopes of #Letter365 were originally planned to be identical apart from a date and number change!

: Coincidence

: No244. Envelopes were opened out to show the back

: Sway during #Letter365 opening

: Artist’s talk in the Allsop Gallery

: Sometimes I hand delivered after dark when the Arts Centre was closed

: I used the outside of the envelopes for discussions of art theory

: July and August all open

: No1 – the large lettering was added to show up in publicity shots

: No365 – the envelopes became artworks in themselves

: No205 with typical outside messages

: I did my #Letter365 work wherever I needed to be – here in Birmingham

: #Letter365 in London

: O’Hooley and Tidow deliver #Letter365 for me

: When Kilter Theatre came to Bridport I got the nice people to take my piece. It arrived with their postmark.

: Other artists sometimes got involved

: My local Postmaster saw a lot of me

: The snail mail snail

: The snail mail envelope

: Snail mail collection

: The front of the envelope of No346

: This comment about “Frippertronics” is one of the longest rear notes

: Captain Beefheart got a few mentions

: Each envelope was sealed with extra security – usually sealing wax

: Because people could not know what was inside there were often references to Schrödinger’s cat

: The colour of the printing changed gradually each day

: No342 – I don’t know where half the stuff came from

: The notes on the back got quite long at times

: Sometimes there were no annotations

: T E Lawrence turned out to be involved in just one of the many coincidences discovered

: My printer became involved in contributing its own art

: I often put messages for the posties on the envelopes

: No 175

: There was an ongoing commentary about all sorts of things on the outsides

: Adding artistic credentials

: No278 was another envelope with no messages on the front!

: One of the many that hinted the contents could be a work by great artists