In acknowledgment of National Letter Writing Day we're casting our minds back to Lee Mingwei's "The Letter Writing Project," which was in the exhibition Measure Your Existence at the Rubin Museum from February 7 to August 10, 2020. After Lee's maternal grandmother passed away in the late 1990s, he wrote many letters to her as if she were still alive, sharing thoughts and emotions he had left too late to express. In The Letter Writing Project visitors were invited to sit in the booth and write a letter to a deceased or absent loved one, expressing feelings of forgiveness, apology, or gratitude. They were invited to leave the letter unsealed for other visitors to read, or seal the letter with an address for the Museum to post. Lee described The Letter Writing Project as a meaningful gift exchange between the visitor and the artist. Since the work debuted in 1998, the artist has collected over one hundred thousand letters, some unsealed and others sealed with no address. Lee plans to p...