Thank you for your interest. This is a mail art project that will eventually result in a compilation about the spatiality of bonds as an affective territory. For me, it's a project of listening. About paying attention without expecting anything in return. Of composing a fabric with unnecessary fragments and offering it to the universe. Of giving substance and time to the notion of bond.
It's about the bond as a process of exchange. In this case, an electronic, intangible exchange, which I've configured as a mail art project. This is an invitation to participate in a collaborative creative project about that idea or notion of bond, particularly broken bonds.It's about thinking about the bond as a necessity and as something inevitable that transforms.
I seek to generate an anonymous dialogue with the insubstantiality of affection, emotions, and feelings, thinking about the bond as what situates the human being in an affective reality.
This is because a personal experience has made me stop and think: What is a bond? How does it begin to exist? What does it imply? What is (or was) its temporality? Not so much why that bond began or broke down, but rather, how does it appear to me, within me?
It's about thinking of the bond as something ethereal, essential to human nature. Something that is constantly transforming. A presence that imperceptibly materializes and dematerializes.
Once, someone gave me a book full of personal notes that referred, through the text, to that "something" between us. I lost that book when I moved from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and only then did I realize that the bond wasn't the book itself, nor the notes it contained. The bond was what wasn't there. The image that gave rise to this project is a map of the place where that bond exists.
I've paused to think about this upon realizing that all my bonds are mediated by electronic—digital—space. That they exist for me as presences, words, voices, distant, absent intangible materialities.
That's why this project is about the empty space where that broken thread floats. A space that only exists in relation to something or someone else.
It is in this sense that I question: What is (or what could be) the substance of that tenuous and invisible bond that unites us or united us to something or someone?
It is observing the remaining half of that thread, asking myself if bonds are chosen or if they appear randomly. It is observing my life as the product of a bond. It is thinking if those threads truly break or if they remain suspended in some singular and intimate place/time, dwelling between shadow and memory, between the absent presence of what is no longer there. Like a piece of thread suspended in an unmapable space.
I then open up the notion of bond to observe the fabric that unites people, places, things; with which a relationship has been woven that, necessarily, has been transformed. With this, I open myself to the other in attention to that bond. To give meaning to that piece of thread.
The proposal is to observe how, in what way, and through what means we create, narrate, or materialize that bond. It's about representing that invisible tie in an image, collage, drawing, text, or poem to treasure it, heal it, transmute it, or make it disappear; to let it go definitively. To cast it into the sea or bury it.
It's about narrating/materializing that invisible thing between two points.
If you'd like to participate, please feel free to put that story down on paper by hand, and then give it the visual form you prefer, as if you were putting a secret in a safe that no one can touch.
A safe that you will throw into the sea.
It's a rather anonymous collaboration—participation. You don't need to specify names, places, or things. You don't need to sign it. You can encode it or write it with lipstick. You can tell a secret or invent a story. Or a letter.
About the bond that you decide to share.
It's about making visible the space of what we call a bond, with complete freedom. I will print these images to weave these connections in a way similar to the piece that sparked these reflections. This weaving will serve as a support/container for this book-object produced as a mail art practice.
If you wish to participate, attach a photo of your manuscript and the accompanying image and submit it via the form. It's about letting go of that piece of thread. If you'd like, I'll share a copy of the compilation "Lier - Bindung - Bond" with you.
I will begin weaving on December 12, 2025, and will deactivate this page on June 26, 2026.
Thank you for participating!
Please send you collaboration to: contact@morenogranados.com