Collected Item: “Recovery Justice Mail Art”
Give your story a title.
Recovery Justice Mail Art
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
images of artwork and artist statement
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
I See Dedication
I See Hope
I See Love
We are all suffering illness, sadness, loss of the way we think life should be–
Using the cool patterns on the panels of tissue boxes, I thought that material appropriate. Most of these collaged images appropriate an eye form, much like the Turkish Evil Eye, when given as a gift it offers protection.
In this project many 18th St. artists participated and a single art piece was sent out with mental health support materials for anyone who signed-up on our website.
This has been an artist-driven 18th St. Arts supported and produced project also supported by Recovery Justice, Santa Monica and We Rise LA. Special thanks to Sara Daleiden and Sue Bell Yank at 18th St.
–Melinda Smith Altshuler
P.S. Honestly it has been an honor and a blessing to produce work for this project and also support our friends and neighbors who are suffering more than us.
I See Hope
I See Love
We are all suffering illness, sadness, loss of the way we think life should be–
Using the cool patterns on the panels of tissue boxes, I thought that material appropriate. Most of these collaged images appropriate an eye form, much like the Turkish Evil Eye, when given as a gift it offers protection.
In this project many 18th St. artists participated and a single art piece was sent out with mental health support materials for anyone who signed-up on our website.
This has been an artist-driven 18th St. Arts supported and produced project also supported by Recovery Justice, Santa Monica and We Rise LA. Special thanks to Sara Daleiden and Sue Bell Yank at 18th St.
–Melinda Smith Altshuler
P.S. Honestly it has been an honor and a blessing to produce work for this project and also support our friends and neighbors who are suffering more than us.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
smhopes, santamonica, artofrecovery, 18thStreetArtCenter, evileye, mentalhealth, collage, pattern
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Melinda Smith Altshuler
Give this story a date.
2021-08-05