“Everyone Says ‘Hi’” is the title of my favorite David Bowie song from his 2002 album Heathen. The song is supremely sentimental and yearns with the lyric “…I’d like to get a letter. Like to know what’s what…” The accumulation of envelopes for this piece are almost exclusively from bank and credit card statements, junk mail, and debt settlement offers sent to my house. Rarely is there a person-to- person correspondence from loved ones, but they’re in there. This piece is a conflation of my desires, a wish list of wanting to have meaningful, intimate interactions, but instead being overwhelmed by, and embedded within, a culture of consumerism and credit. I want more than I give, I spend more than I have. All the creditors say “hi”.

— Andy T