News from Friday, July 20, 2001 @ 12:22 PM Recently, although we have not received the expected flood of written comments from our readers, we have overheard a few comments, one of which caught our attention. A certain respectable fellow commented that the name of our zine had nothing to do with the contents of the issues. We beg to differ. It comes to mind, however, that we have not yet explained the meaning behind the name, but for that matter, why should we be obligated to? It is all up to interpretation anyway, same as the art within. But, just to keep the record straight, and read some meaning to this developing movement of ours, we suppose an explanation is at hand.
First, one must think of the goings on of the Postal System, and a word from their terminology; the Dead Letter. Those pages, parcels, or packages which, for whatever reason, are unable to be delivered are put into the Dead Letter bin until, after a specified amount of time never being claimed, they are destroyed. The true Dead Letter will never reach its destination, and will eventually be forgotten, lost in the masses.
Now use this term as an adjective to describe a type of artwork and you have that which we represent; a collection of art which essentially has no destination, would most likely never to be seen by the public eye, and eventually forgotten. Although we do have a professional or two featured between our pages, for the most part, this is a collection of amateurs, yet we wish to bring this hidden talent out into the open and prove that it can rival, and even surpass that of the seasoned pro. That in essence is the purpose of our magazine. Ours is an outlet for those who would not normally have the chance to be published, to be seen. We are striving to bring all of the Dead Letter Art out of the attic, so to speak.
And so for this issue, we decided we were finally up to the challenge of digging up all of the raw “Dead Letter Art” we could think of, which natuarally became a sort of homecoming, back to our mutual youths in the small city of Moses Lake. As we searched out all of the souls we could remember, we were pleasanly surprized at not only the amount of individuals we were able to contact, but also the amount of enthusiasm they had for our little venture. But we also met with some disappointments, of souls we were unable to reach, and in the realization that one of those souls was no longer with us. And so this issue is not only our Homecoming, and a display of all of the Dead Letter Art we could gather from Moses Lake, but also a Memorial, dedicated to one very talented and missed Dead Letter Artist, Jamison Deherera.
We hope all of our readers, and all those involved, including Jamison himself, are pleased with this fattest of DLA issues and with the choicest diggings of Dead letter art it contains. So peruse, and enjoy.
Editors
Osseus
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