Paperless Post launched in 2008 with a series of skeuomorphic online invitations that attempt to evoke the same emotions one might get from ripping open a real-life envelope and reading a real-life greeting card sent by real-life people.
For her newest exhibit at Halsey Mckay in East Hampton, the artist turned her lens on the invisible inequality in modern American life that envelopes us, building these same subatomic particle compositions into contemporary Americana.
"Life is an envelope," she tells Hannah.
I love this value prop of getting the most secure product with the best battery life within this envelope.
At her best she slips rather raw chunks of real life into pristine envelopes clearly marked "art" while keeping both hands on the table.
Unlike other proteins, which undergo constant recycling and replenishment, crystallines remain stable throughout a person's life; they are envelopes sealed at birth, their contents an artifact from the womb.
He is a person who keeps mementoes of his life tidily in envelopes, one for each year; he invited guests on a birthday cruise to the Galapagos Islands two years in advance.
Getting older has not deterred my optimism or my desire for pushing the envelope on life.
His decision to fight the charges against him may represent the biggest gamble yet in a life spent pushing the envelope of what politics, and the law, will allow.
She is seated, as Auer recalls, in her bed, her smooth face silhouetted against the windows behind her, surrounded by the paraphernalia of her almost immobilized life -- books, stamps, envelopes, a telephone, knives, forks, scissors, pens, thermos bottles, a wheelchair, files, medications, a television, newspapers and magazines in German, French and English.
It is irrational — we ought to fuss more about babies than about bodies, more about keeping people alive than about what to do with their envelopes after life has left them — but it is always there, the disposition of the dead being the obsession of the living.
