The first of the letters have made their way to various locations throughout Marigny/Bywater. They were printed, pasted, put down (and hopefully picked up) by curious citizens willing to engage with one another in conversation.
Left on tables in cafes, in the mail boxes of homes and complexes, amongst books in the library, strewn about the cast off 45"s at Euclid Records, and pasted on a few choice slabs of concrete and undulating tin walls, a sampling of their locations are as follows:
Cafe Mojo
Who Dat Cafe
Aunt Sally's Praline warehouse on Chartres and Press Street- The best smelling place to paste
Industrial Sized Dumpster #397 in front of the abandoned building at 317 Burgundy
Metal Pole on Chartres between Piety and Desire Streets. This location is most likely a major FAIL and up for viewing for a very limited time only as a man driving by passed, stopped, reversed, rolled down his window, and proceeded to inform us he would have it removed promptly.
There are letters beyond the locations mentioned above and if you spend some time in the neighborhood, I hope you find one somewhere unexpected.
Hi, my name is Kaelin. I'm a 16-year-old visual arts student at NOCCA in New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteI found a letter from you to Evan in the Marigny. Honestly, I couldn't tell you where exactly it was. It was on the sidewalk on an out-of-place painted board, near a hardware store off of Elysian Fields. I wrote down the website, because your writing drew me in. I'm absolutely inspired. I've always wondered why people stopped writing letters.
I'm motivated to find your other letters, and write back somehow. But this was a sure way of letting you know that this reached someone.
Thank you, so much.