Star Route 1

Like the network of post offices presented herein, Star Route 1 is itself a precise arrangement of distances. Alongside pin-board messages, crop prices, reconfigured addresses, and a horse named Montana Blizzard, Welcome and Bachman's meditation on the space of the post reads as an incomplete archive of particular histories -- histories tethered to the zip codes of Northeastern Colorado. Combining photographs of individual post offices and wide-ranging textual reflections, Star Route 1 begins to map an analogous space through the deep time of postal geography. Like the postal system it describes, it is a poetic reflection on the meeting of systems and subjectivities. If we can learn so much from this space of encounter, from this specific constellation of small-town post offices, then, where can't we? Jesse Vogler - Geographer, artist, and author of Correct and Perfect, winner of the US Postal Service award for scholarship on postal history.