SECURITY ENVELOPES

Security envelopes are costless, sometimes colorful found-objects, each of which conveys small aesthetic choices—this graphic, that ink, this pattern density, etc.—often on the part of massive transnational corporate entities.  As a medium, security envelopes are compelling for both the diversity of their designs, as well as their ascribed function as security devices—obscuring content, dividing interior from exterior, public from private—, a role that imbues the envelopes with socio-political overtones in the context of surveillance by and security against everyone from snooping neighbors and the art-viewing public to would-be identity thieves and the NSA.