Kurzbeschreibung
If you can write letters to Santa Claus c/o the North Pole, you ought to be able to write a letter to Jack Kerouac or Albert Einstein. As it turns out, you can. People have been trying to communicate with the dead for aeons, but it took renowned author and illustrator Henrik Drescher to break through the eternal barrier.
Postal Seance is the result of his bizarre and ambitious experiment, in which the afterlife meets the epistolary impulse in the form of elaborately decorated letters to the dead. By sending out 52 ornately designed cards and letters to deceased luminaries throughout history -- including James Joyce, Dolly the Sheep (in two letters), Chairman Mao, Saul Steinberg, and others -- Drescher puts his faith in the efficacy of the international postal network. In some cases, the letter is returned, bearing evidence of its lengthy journey in the form of international postmarks as it bounced from Singapore to Manchester, Sydney to Kentucky, or Madrid to Moscow, at last surrendering to the ultimate defeat, the 'Return to Sender' stamp. Of those not returned, it is deduced that the letter was successfully delivered. With a foldout map showing the post-life postal system and custom stamps for the reader's own far-reaching missives,
Postal Seance is a uniquely imaginative presentation, and perhaps the closest we humans have ever come to contact with the dead.
Synopsis
Renowned illustrator and children's book author Henrik Drescher turns his unique visual talents to creating letters for the dead - and mailing them. Finding out how far they get before they are returned, Drescher pieces together a vision of how the postal system works in the afterlife with engaging art and humorous inferences. Internationally renowned illustrator Henrik Drescher, author of Turbulence, has created a beautiful piece of bookmaking and a distinctive literary sortie: a collection of ingeniously illustrated letters to famous figures - all of them deceased - sent through the postal service. Each spread shows the decorative letters themselves and, when available, evidence of the lengthy journeys they took, from international postmarks to the final "Returned to Sender" stamp.
