unexpected art that can be descirbed and hopefully understood

in a devastatingly wonderful letter, that i will most likely post parts of later, i happened to recieve an unexpected gift,

this gift was what i will call an art piece
this gift was 10 crumpled up scrawled on pieces of paper
this gift was this person's (or this person's family's) grocery lists

and this lead me to the following colclusions:
-we (as humans) eat to survive
-this is what my family and i eat to survive
-we consume/buy to survive
-we organize ourselves to survive
- we need to remeber to survive
-we fold up and throw away our old tools of survival, our things to rememeber and means of getting by, and we forget that someone else may appreciate them.
-sometimes there is not point in in survial, it is just done


SO I WANT TO HEAR ALL OF YOUR THOUGHTS
why do you think this person sent me lists or things they have bought/ planned to buy/consume
or is there even a meaning
i stress the idea of respectfully and eloquently expressing an argument or statement
lets get some feed back

as always

much love

patrick gill

ps:
i dont particularlly think that the contributor of this necessarily intended for these lists to be thought of in this way, but what else is going to happen when you send things without explanation to a man who wants things explained

i think that deep down they like it

Found a letter in my stack ok things i need to do

so i am kicking my own ass again
i sent out a few thank yous and responses to constant contributors

and in the process of working through the piles i found some gems that never got hung on the wall

i have gotten in the habit of conversing in lengthy stream of concious meanderings with one of my regular correspondances. this is the slightest snipet of a 6 page letter.

Remeber this is a tib bit
if you want more ask
and for that matter comment gosh darn it
or at least email me if you think this project is interesting
pgill1@students.depaul.edu
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A letter read, in my veiw, is a letter enhanced.
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(in regards to my supposed desire for my this contributor to have never written a letter before. This is very much assumed i ask for letters from anyone, avid letter writers or not, but it makes for a good image after word ok shutting up)

..........That, however, I can respect; the desire that we should both embark upon this journey together as innocents, as wide eyed travellers to a distant land, unknowing of our fates, careless of our destinations, to emerge-someday, somewhere- bruised, sad, a little wiser perhaps, but ultimately and joyusly Alive!

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Dali could paint a portrait of my life and it would turn out to be one of his most surreal, most twisted, mustachioed, and all together disturbing works evern splashed upon a canvas

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Heres is a ridiculous and entierly annoying ode to David Bowie:

The Public School Student sits and think:
Inked ravens of despair claw holes in the ass of the world's mind
Scrotal threats unhorse a question of flowers
I asked for answers and got a head full of heroin in return
When time fell wanking to the floor the kicked his teeth
My body disgusts
Damn grease wafts,
sweat balls from sweat balls and thigh fungus
A girl strips in my mind,
Squeezes my last pumping drop of hope and
rolls me over to sleep alone
Fire boar the dead cities of my mind and watch the skin peal and warp
We are all unhappy bubbles of anal wind popping and winking in the mortal bath

The Public School teacher responds in thought:
Every lavatory wall is an anthology
The Oxford dictionary of English verse perhaps may be the lavatory paper
i am assailed by doubt and racked by fear
Tossed in erect mucus foam of
of
of
Hatred
good
no
Esteemed Loathing
Snot trails of lust perforate the bowels of my content
Is there life on mars Major Tom

And thus, Bowie ends all.
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THIS SHOULD BE NOTED:
all artists sending in work!
i am sorry but i cannot get it up on the page immediately
my camera is not functioning
i do not have a scanner
i swear to you though that i will find a way
that is why no art posts have been up lately

Short suggestion letter?

recently I received 4 letters in the matter of two days. i do not care if two happened to be from my mother [one containing rilo kiely tickets (score) and swim goggles (not subtle hint to get in shape), and the other being my brothers graduation announcement (engraved, sweet, from the school of the purple on the river!)]
after a complete divergence from the topic i will bring you to one of the other letters i received. well it was more of a package, bag, what have you.

and inside was a book.
This book to be exact



and with it came a quite fine envelope of black stationary, and inside this envelope was a note which read.

SAVOR THIS BOOK, IT IS BEAUTIFUL.
BEST WISHES, ----- ------

and here comes my personal plug for jonathan safran foer

HE IS PHENOMENAL, hands down one of the most enjoyable writers to read that has existed. I recently read Everything Is Illuminated and it was breath taking, and now I am just getting into Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and all I have seen is greatness.

cunning linguist, he really gets how to write from a narrative perspective. and he doesnt stop there, he takes far reaching and very realistic subject matter and makes it surreal.
love this man
oh

ok containing myself

sorry that i took up so much blog with personal thoughts
i think it is because the letter is short

recap:
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE is one person's means of survival. This is them sharing, literally sharing in sending me the book, the passion for life.