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# Curios About: Letterbox Dublin by Sarah Bracken
- URL: https://www.dublininquirer.com/curios-about-letterbox-dublin-by-sarah-bracken/
- Published: 2016-04-27T01:20:13.000Z
- Updated: 2016-04-27T01:20:00.000Z
- Description: Sarah Bracken’s Letterbox Dublin street-art project gives residents and visitors a chance to scribble and share confessions.
- Author: Square in the Circle
- Tags: Culture Desk, arts, Curios About, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-03-05 15:28

**Letterbox Dublin**  
By Sarah Bracken  
Street art/letters (2008-2015)

1\. This work is about . . . Letterbox Dublin is an interactive street art project. It aims to add to the experience of Dublin city in a positive way, to make it an interesting place to live and visit. It aims to interact with Dubliners and visitors alike, to give them a creative outlet in a public setting and to provide a channel of anonymous expression and confession. The project documents, exhibits and publishes the letters, which are themselves valuable artefacts of the times in which they were sent.

2\. I made this work because . . . I was writing my thesis on street art and experimenting with interactive art. The box was a pure experiment. The first Letterbox Dublin was handmade out of scraps of wood. It was put up in Dame Lane and a theme was placed on the box. Since then I have collected a huge archive of letters from the various letterbox themes.

3\. I hope when people see this work they will . . . laugh, cry, be moved and feel connected to the letter writer.

4\. In terms of art history, this work . . . is an interactive street-art project, so it is inspired by and belongs to the twentieth- and twenty-first-century street-art movement.

5\. You can see my work . . . on my website [here](http://www.brackensarah.com/?ref=dublininquirer.com).

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