Claudia
O’Steen

Caesura (letter-writing project) (2012)

^{This is an ongoing social project that I began by writing letters. For 6 months I wrote two letters a day, one to a person that I know and one to a person that I do not. In each letter I asked one question, "What makes you personally feel most alive and conscious?". With each letter I included a stamped envelope to encourage people to resond. This project is a way of reaching out to people, forming connections, and also understanding a little more about the personal experience of consciousness.}

^{Materials inclue mailed written and received letters, metal fasteners, harvester ants, fabricated ant farm, audio piece composed of interviews and letters read aloud.} 

^{I continued working with these letters by asking several people to randomly choose 5 letters, and then to choose and read the one they felt they most related to. This is an audio piece created from the readings.}