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In the interest of educating myself, I'm going to make a feeble attempt at finding other artists working in similar areas, or just work that I really like. The first person someone that one of my neighbors introduced me to, Kenn Speiser. He lives in Providence and he uses lots of mundane objects and construction items in his work. I especially love the Department of Transportation piece (pictured at left). From his website:

"In the words of Bruce Helander, former editor and publisher of Art Express Magazine and frequent contributor of collages to The New Yorker, Kenn has "the intuitive gift that all conductors of visual poetry must have -- to keep dissimilar parts spinning at the same time, and to fine tune them into an aesthetic balancing act with a provacative twist." It's no surprise that large corporations, small businesses and public institutions have found Kenn's vision appropriate for their site-specific projects. "

He also has a security envelope project, although he actually calls them "safety envelopes". There are SO many different patterns, broken down into categories. There are specimens I've never even seen before, and colors too.

The site is also educational, for any envelope history buffs (I know you're out there...):

"The earliest example I have of an inside security tint is an envelope used at the White House during Woodrow Wilson's administration. The inside tint was used to insure that no one read the contents of the letter and Wilson used window envelopes at the time to save on readdressing time given the quantity of correspondence his administration produced."

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