Made September - December 2004. Opened on February 29, 2008.

Ever since I could remember, I have always had a penchant for collecting random found objects, and cutting out scraps of paper that I found appealing and/or more or less memorable. During the time that I made the envelopes for Lunchbag, this penchant for collecting things and putting them together went a long way in helping me deal with a particularly difficult, confusing, and frustrating time in my life in which I did not have too much time to make art. It was kind of an urgent stuffing away of thoughts and associations; I cut things, painted on them, put them together, and sealed them into envelopes, sending them away into a big paper bag void.

I opened them up today (what better day to open them than Leap day) for the first time now almost three years later, and I only have faint recollections of making them. But the opened up envelopes seemed to cast a strange aura of frustrations and tribulations; I felt that I had to put them back into the bag immediately before they somehow ate me up. At the same time, though, it made me kind of chuckle away, remembering that I got through all that just fine.

Shown here are pictures of 31 out of 36 envelopes and their contents.