Letters To A Building Marked For Demolition

Letters to a building marked for demolition, to go down with the ship.

While traveling overland across Japan, Siberia, Mongolia, and China, I wrote daily letters addressed to a building marked for demolition in Baltimore, where I used to live. They were written on trash scraps and notecards found along the way, then mailed across the sea. Once they accumulated in the building's mailbox, they went down with the building, down with the ship.

Autorentext
Elizabeth McTernan is an American artist based in Berlin. Since 2003, she has been pursuing research, over land and sea, in North America, Europe, Russia, Central & Southeast Asia, and India, processing it via actions (non-vicarious encounters), drawing, video/audio installation, storytelling, and printmaking. She exhibits internationally and has been invited as an artist-in-residence at numerous reputable institutions across Europe and the United States. Also, she once saw someone slip and fall on a banana peel in real life.