MUNDANE LOVE

an art series

2018 | Exhibited Art

Technology is always changing. But sentiments stay the same. By comparing current text-messages & similar letters written a century ago, I wanted to show how people talk about the same things. We’ve just cut out all the flowery language. We don’t need to fill pages and pages for a letter, because we can chat constantly, even when you live thousands of miles apart.

 comparison between the printed and painted color. Printed samples have more sheen, where as the gouache paint has a flat finish - by Katie Leavens
Selected text messages between Avalon & Mark, 2018 with background text of a love letter written by John Keats to Fanny Brawne in 1819.

True love isn’t about the big moments. It’s about all the in-between moments—the mundane moments where you let your guard down and you admit a moment of insecurity because you know you’re in a safe place.

 

 comparison between the printed and painted color. Printed samples have more sheen, where as the gouache paint has a flat finish - by Katie Leavens
Selected text messages between Natalie & Christina, 2018 with background text of a letter written by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra in 1811.

True love isn’t just romantic love. It’s the mundane moments where you celebrate continuing good news with those you treasure most.

 

For more about my process and their personal meaning to me, I have a blog post all about it.

Full diploma for the Marin Waldorf School 2021 graduates with red illuminated M in a mid-century style on blue shield by Katie Leavens
These pieces were shown in Calligraphies in Conversations, 2018.

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