An Envelope is Superior to Email so says Valentine Mark Herman

Thursday was a wonderful day. I understood Valentine's message on his page that "An envelope is superior to an email". How true. One can hold an envelope, runs ones fingers where the artist has made conscious decisions to paste, collage and draw visual images. I could own an envelope all the way from France. Words in cyberspace float in their own miasma, giving us no satisfaction of ownership - by his gift, I now own Valentines envelope, a piece of his art. AND MAN!! The curiosity of whether or not there is something in there - even if I know there is not - maybe there is?

Envelopes are like closed books - their covers hold the promise of content. Valentine! Is there anything inside?? Lady Liberty Me!

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Comment by Jen Staggs on October 10, 2010 at 2:32am: Beautiful work. Little reliquaries of time. Plus, we all know that the e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.

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