Ink Die on Paper with backlight 12” x 16” 2020
Statement
In 1878 the Universal Postal Union established the Universal Postal Convention, a treaty that set uniform rules and procedures for the exchange of international mails. By 1914 the union had grown to include almost all independent countries. This was the first worldwide information super-highway.
My print, Box 997, celebrates this web-of-words, the precursor to today’s internet. The print depicts a brass doored box, the likes of which can still be seen arrayed, Cartesian-style, in many U.S. Post Offices.
I like to imagine a Post Office in the future where similar arrays of doors comprise miniature stargates, which
open onto wormholes that connect too far off points in space/time.