Love Letter Truck

About the love letter truck

This project uses postage stamps as a metaphor for New York City’s diverse and vibrant community, while also highlighting the often-invisible labor of Sanitation Workers who move waste out of the city. 

Digging through someone’s trash is one of the most intimate ways to understand who they are, offering an unfiltered and deeply private glimpse into everyday life. Discarded objects become fragments of personal stories, like unfinished love letters written collectively by a community. Like old friends sending letters through the mail, these workers carry the remnants of daily life from one place to another, sustaining the city’s continuous cycle. 

Together, these elements explore the connection between community, labor, pride for our home and circularity, revealing how what we discard continues to speak about who we are.

About the Artist

Hi, I’m Allison Bouganim and I am a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and comedian based in NYC. Everything I make is driven by the same impulse: to use humor, joy, and surprise as a way to shift how people see, and move, through the world around them. I’m best known for my work with interactive sculptures. Using storytelling, comedy, and a dose of absurdity, I bring these sculptures to life and invite people to engage with them rather than simply observe. Many of these works have appeared as guerrilla installations throughout the city, turning sidewalks, streets, and unlikely corners into temporary, mobile art galleries. I’m no stranger to unconventional materials, untraditional locations, or bending the rules of where art is “supposed” to live. I believe art shouldn’t be confined to pristine white walls. It should bump into you in real life, make you laugh, make you curious, and maybe catch you a little off guard.