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Lindsay Zier-Vogel is the founding editor of Puddle Press, a limited edition book-art publishing house. Using new and experimental binding techniques and employing interactive, minimalist design, Lindsay’s books are currently housed in the National Library and Archives of Canada and at The Regional Assembly of Text’s lowercase gallery in Vancouver, BC. She is also the founder and creator of The Love Lettering Project.
Her work has also been featured at festivals and galleries including the Wayzgoose Festival in Grimsby, RED Marketplace, virus art gallery’s objectorium, the OCAD Books Arts fair, the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, TYPE books, Skirt, Distill Gallery and Kid Icarus in Toronto and the Workshop Boutique in Ottawa.
Her text-based textile art collaboration with Dr. Suzanne Watters, ‘Centering Ourselves as Patients’ has toured hospitals and conferences throughout Canada and was featured in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Lindsay’s first solo show, Sitting Room Stories, was held at Type books Gallery in from November 2006 to January 2007. In September 2007, she was the featured installation artist at the She Said Boom! Window space in downtown Toronto.
She is a currently guest blogger for The Paper Place.
Photo by Michael A. Jones
The Love Lettering Project is a community based art project that brings love letters to strangers. Lindsay has been papering cities with love letters for seven years by writing love poems and turning them into one-of-a-kind paper and thread collages. She then slips them into air mail envelopes marked ‘love’ and distributes them anonymously…
Intrigued by idea of people reacting to a randomly found envelope with the word “love” written on it, Lindsay believes in the transformative capacity of even the smallest gesture. As the objective is to explore the process of transforming strangers’ relationship to public spaces through anonymous love letters, the letters are unsigned and exist solely for those who discover them.
There’s something so special about receiving words of love folded up inside an envelope, and who could ever receive enough love letters? There’s often such a small window in which we write them, and with so much of our communication occurring over email or on Facebook or phones, good old fashioned love letters are becoming extinct. The Love Lettering Project puts the love letter first and foremost.
