Florence Logan
"sorry, your love"- breakup by postcard
"sorry, your love" - break-up by postcard was written and created by Florence Logan (2022).
This interactive writing project and digital archive consisted of 100 postcards which were sent randomly to different areas of Glasgow, Scotland. In each postcard, I had written a different reason for breaking-up with the random receiver. Each postcard had a sticker with the website, where the receiver was invited to reply to their letter and/or read the other postcards .
A break up letter: an ancient and intimate convention where the former loved and/or loving person chooses to end their current commitment and romantic responsibility to the other. The letter expresses feelings such as but not limited to: vulnerability, ugliness, despair, selfishness, relief, courage, kindness and of course, some clingy and clingfilmed leftover love as well.
A postcard: an often trivial purchase, a joyful and lighthearted holiday ritual, a thoughtful gesture, words naked and open for everyone to see.
How could anything important be written on such a silly short space?
Was it love if its ending didn't even get an envelope? If it didn't deserve the intimacy of being folded and the generosity of being licked shut?