Let me just open with this: a priority postage-shipped package painted especially pour vous! Its “contents,” maybe Freedom or Love or Happiness, even. The simply named The Priority Boxes project, realization of painter Franck de Las Mercedes, is a public/global art series that steps outside of the box and addresses art to you.

A cardboard container his canvas, Mercedes abstractly paints and then thoughtfully dedicates each piece of the perpetual series. The dedication, a “Fragile” message: Fragile: Contains Peace, for example. He then priority mails the Priority Box to you, to me, to anyone; someone at NOTCOT jumped on board and received Happiness. Although the wait is between 4 and 8 weeks, you could (receive Happiness) too. Something to think about…

–Thea Beemer