Letters to You Interactive Sculpture

Letters to You is mailbox house that houses my letters and invites people passing to take and read my letters and write a response back. 

The sculpture’s outside has laser etchings of my favorite words. It also has a component outside to hold pens and paper so people don’t have to search for them.

Inside my letters, I have the same favorite words scattered around in the sentences I wrote about my conflicted feelings about the pressure of Fine Arts. This invites people to reply back to me their opinions about fine arts and my letters.

Tools: Illustrator, Laser Cutter, Rhino3D, CNC Routing

Role: Artist, Designer, Builder

Duration: 1 Week

Initial Concept Sketches

The construction involved designing and figuring out the math of constructing a miniature house with two levels, and how to etch words on there. I figured out the math by hand and designed the box in Illustrator, and CNC route it, then laser cut the words, and then constructed it in the wood shop.

Process

Sculpture Interaction

I installed the sculpture out in the public on grass, and I received more than 20 letters back to me. Some of the letters recieved was very self-reflecting, and others analyzed how I was feeling from their point of view. My art professor also wrote a letter to me, and it helped me resolve some of the internal feelings I had wrote about fine art.

Detail