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Hi. My name is Maria. Correspondence Windows is drawing-installation-mail art project about isolation, connection, and exchange.

 

During this pandemic, I've stared out my windows - with longing, hope, boredom, gratitude, loss - and imagined others doing the same. I look out the window as an escape from the other rectangular screens of light capturing my attention. What weather patterns, architecture, foliage, are other people looking out at? On social media, I have solicited photos of people's views while staying home.

 

First I sketch interesting shapes, lines, objects I see in the photo, then I use ink to trace my sketch with thin brush on a piece of clear plastic (re-purposed report covers I hoarded as a child). Next, I mail one ink drawing with a letter to each contributor, to hang up on their respective windows. It's a game of telephone; one person gets the next person's view, who gets the next person's. Finally, participants email me photos of the ink views superimposed on their windows. This website is a documentation of that installation, in windows across the United States.

 

Keep the chain going! Send me a photo of your view.

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