Tuesday, June 22, 2021

"1961"


 Title: "1961"
paper
framed 13" x 22
2021
NFS colletion of artist

The envelopes above were created in 1961 to send to a friend, who I'd been in school with in Chicago. She transferred to another school. I was interested in being a closer friend and started sending her letters in envelopes, which at the time didn't know that I was actually creating collages. These few envelopes were recently rediscovered, 60 years later, and framed. That friend has been my wife for 54 years. 

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