XO (2020–2025)

Between 2020 and 2025, I photographed every Post-it note included in recurring coffee shipments from a roaster (and good friend) in Colorado. The notes arrive irregularly, handwritten in marker on cheap paper, often creased or stained. I photograph each one square, centered, in consistent light.

The series documents a minor communication system: friend-to-friend messages embedded in commercial transactions. The notes say little—"xo!", "Hi!", "Merry Christmas!"—but their accumulation indexes duration, habit, and the small labor required to maintain connection across distance. Most are formulaic. Some break pattern.

On Kawara's painted dates for decades for his Today Series, collapsing personal time into impersonal record. This work reverses that: impersonal objects (packaging ephemera) become evidence of sustained personal attention. The repetition exposes formal variation—ink saturation, color shifts, handwriting pressure—that wouldn't register in isolation.

Printed as 47 unique 12×12-inch photographs. No editions. The constraint mirrors the notes: singular, perishable, unrepeatable.