Courtesy of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo by Robert McNair

Courtesy of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo by Robert McNair

Courtesy of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo by Robert McNair

Courtesy of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo by Robert McNair

Photo by Miles Giesbrecht

2018, pencil on paper

Letters is a series of more than 100 drawings based on the images of hand-written letters found on the Internet. The collected images of letters are printed and hand-copied onto paper with a pencil using a light pad. The letters are written in various languages, from Tagalog to Armenian, and by some well-known and mostly unknown people from different places and times.
As most letters are written in languages I do not know, I am tracing the act of writing itself, not their meaning. Through the process, the virtual images of once actual writings become actual again.