Dead Letter Postcard
Single Channel Video
2010
1:30 min image loop, 12:00 min sound loop
Dimensions:600 x 800 px
Stills
Dead Letter Postcard is an absurd self-portrait inspired by the 2004 announcement of the end of the space shuttle program. I think of the piece as a small, elegiacal painting or postcard, belatedly sent to, but never received by, the astronaut dreams of the 1980’s.