Marge Monko, Dear D, 2015.

In the book Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance, Andrea Clarke suggested “Love letters are an expression of intimacy; their words allow us insight into the private relationships of people down the ages.” Here I am, looking at the private thoughts of an anonymous admirer on a projection screen in public. However this is not just a regular love email; this is a screen-captured video showing the process of writing a love email, with the writer’s voice reading/narrating what she’s typing, making it so much different from reading a traditional letter. From her love email, I know about how the writer and the reader met, the moment when the admirer grew her affection and the complicate feelings she was having toward this unrequited love. To be more concise, this video is more like a video essay investigating contemporary love under the disguise of a fictional love email. This video is recorded entirely on the computer screen, just like the movie Searching (2018), which familiar computer interface and daily applications.