The People's Post Office | Caro Clark
Clark crafted 14 wooden mailboxes which she hung at the entrances to all the staff and residents' 2nd floor studios, and installed a Post Office on the museum's main floor, including drop box, Elsewhere postmark stamp, and PO Boxes for offsite staff. Her project was a functional reinterpretation of The People's Post Office, a previous project which explored letter writing through a collection of letters with hypothetical, accidental or forgotten authors and recipients. Clark left the New PPO as objects built to inspire a new mode of dialog in the museum, with the acknowledgment that silence can be as much of an engagement as communication.
Caro Clark hails from Rhode Island, lives in Maine, and is earning her MFA in fiction at the University of New Hampshire. She recently finished walking across Spain and feels very tired, leaving her with little to say about herself or her writing save for this rudimentary list: boats, lobstermen, a pack of squirrels collectively named Deb, dream space, goat friends, quinoa, brothers, the ocean, the water, the sea.