Marilyn Stablein


From A Lettrist’s Notebook

Confidential:
envelopes

1.

confidential facts



2.

very important people



3.

gag order



4.

the envelope, please




                Confidential: envelopes is a five page interactive unbound portfolio of four readymade, repurposed envelope pages. Collage, vintage ads, stamps, magazine slogans & images, paper currency, and other undisclosed private contents, 2019.

                This photographic essay is second in a series of envelope narratives from “Just Envelopes,” an ongoing project which is included in From A Lettrist’s Notebook, a body of work exploring found typography, word art, vispo, mail art, archival letter-writing paraphernalia & ephemera, and utilitarian stationery tools in various mediums.



Marilyn Stablein, artist, writer, illustrator, performer and teacher recently released her first collection of letters (i.e. aerograms) Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu: Letters from India & Nepal, 1966-1972, Chin Music Press. Recent essays, photo essays, fiction and artwork published or forthcoming in Kyoto Journal, Golden Handcuffs, Gargoyle, Fiction International and Stealing Light: A Raven Chronicles Anthology. Her work is widely exhibited and in private and public collections. Visit marilynstablein{{dot}}.com
 
 
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