Have we lost sight of the significance of the love letter? The caligraphy style handwriting, secrecy and intimicy of recieving words meant only for your eyes, with the deepest emotions expressed as beautiful poetry and treasured in a safe place forever. The content of these letters are personal and communicate an important moment in time for the couple, as does a photograph or mixed tape; freezing a collection of memories to be kept and found later as a votive chronicling of your life.
The need to express ones love to another by exchanging gifts or other tangible objects, has always been an important activity within a relationship, but how does this difffer to sending an e-mail? When does technology take over as a more effiecient method but still keep an emotional element?
As well as including a selection of songs which mean certain things to the owner, a mixed tape can act as a kind of snap shot of specific moments in time; something that happened in your life or a certain person that made an impact to you, creating a collection of your life’s memories which become an extension of you.
The impact of the mixed tape specifically to my project, is the fact that even after it has been played hundreds of times, lost and found again, messages changed and remembered, it keeps gaining new meaning. It is the emotional durability that makes it stand out as an influential piece of technology that will always hold a personal and unique message when it comes to relationships and communication and is today’s retro love letter.
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