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Return to Sender

$350.00

10” x 12” x 3”

What happens to letters never read, or objects set aside with meaning long forgotten? Return to Sender arranges fragments—of bone, bark, metal, and message—into a visual ledger of memory, absence, and the longing to be understood. Each compartment a sentence; the whole, a still-life epistle.

10” x 12” x 3”

What happens to letters never read, or objects set aside with meaning long forgotten? Return to Sender arranges fragments—of bone, bark, metal, and message—into a visual ledger of memory, absence, and the longing to be understood. Each compartment a sentence; the whole, a still-life epistle.

Materials List

  • Vintage wooden type tray or printer's drawer

  • Postcard with postmark and address

  • Skeleton key

  • Vertebrae (animal bone) and mesh gauze

  • Driftwood, moss, lichen, pine cones

  • Shelf fungi (likely Trametes versicolor)

  • Gears, electrical parts, screws

  • Vintage thimble and magnifier lens

  • Shells and pebbles

  • Twigs and handmade wreath

  • Mounted in ornate gold frame

Return to Sender is a cabinet of forgotten intentions—an assemblage where objects whisper of correspondence never received, memories mailed and misfiled. A vintage postcard anchors the work, tucked beside a rusted key, vertebrae, seashell, thimble, dried moss, gears, and small relics of forest and machine. Each cubby contains a fragment of story, nature, or invention, carefully curated like a visual letter never sent. It’s a shrine to the overlooked, a poetic inquiry into what we hold, release, or leave behind.