Love Letters Project – Final Edition

Love letters to The Substation.

The technique of letterpress is an antiquarian form of printing, once dominant for over 500 years, but is now, an artisanal method of putting word to paper. For the 2015 final edition of The Substation Love Letters Project (a literature project by The Substation, a Singapore independent arts centre), this technique was married with the finery of poetry and the romanticised form of the postcard, the love letter.

The final poem of a five-year series – the resolution to the many works that came before – was overprinted by hand on cards from the past series of love letters.

A collage of all the past love letters, as well as the final poem, was installed on the facade of The Substation gallery. This installation credits all the past participants of this project. Copies of the last postcard were made available to the public for free, and were placed within a mailbox in this installation.