Collaboration

Envelopes are a reminder of something specific—a reminder of letters and private correspondence between two people, but everyone can see the outside of the envelope. Who needs to put anything inside or in the mail when the best canvas is the ever resizable outside of the envelope? A canvas that can keep growing into whatever it needs to be and whoever it needs to be for. Even though the parts of pattern are choppy or disjointed from text or surroundings at times, just like humanity, the envelopes still create one heterogeneous whole.

The lead of the pencil created separate parts, but parts fade into others on the page and rub into my fingertips. Each smudge is a different shade of experience connected to everything else. No one needs a melting pot to make humanity easier to handle. All our quirks can be connected like the envelopes and the smudgy lead—stretching out into the world—. We don’t have to encompass everything in each ‘I’ we write or pattern we start because we have to keep going afterward and might as well have something to do while we go forward—even if that just means smudging ‘I’ into ‘we’—.