Salt Lake’s ‘Love Letters’ to the Aesthetics of Print and Typography
September 3, 2019
Source:
The Daily Utah Chronicle
By Abigail Bowé
The museum is co-created by John Connors and Sophie Weichers, two artists previously involved with a successful interactive gallery hosted in Salt Lake City last year, “Hall of Breakfast.” “Love Letters Museum” likewise oozes in photogenic scenery, but with its own unique take that combines whimsical novelty with the everyday tasks of writing and reading. “[It] serves as an empowering reminder to visitors that the words they speak and write each day are meaningful and can be used to tell stories and foster communication,” Connors said.
Think of how any piece of writing metamorphoses through its existence — it’s imagined, written, typed, printed, bound, read, beaten, torn, demolished and remembered. “Love Letters” takes each one of these steps to new extremes, shambles them together out of order and builds an entire, bubble-world of play out of them.