He is currently building a mailbox. Fans can send handwritten letters to a P.O. Box in Missouri. He plans to scan them (badly) and post them to the blog without redacting names or addresses (he has warned everyone to use pseudonyms).
Technically, what draws viewers into Richard Mann’s World more than any subject matter is his unparalleled manipulation of light and atmosphere. Critics have termed his signature aesthetic “luminist melancholy.” Mann works predominantly in oils, often using a restrained palette dominated by deep indigos, slate grays, muted ochres, and the shocking, temporary brightness of artificial light—a streetlamp’s sodium glow, the green of a traffic signal reflected on wet asphalt, the cold fluorescence of an empty launderette. richardmannsworld
One of the most distinctive features of Richard Mann’s World is what he leaves out . There is no violence, no grand gestures, no ecstatic joy. There are no crowds, no protests, no traffic jams. His world is one of post-event calm or pre-event anticipation. This absence of action is, paradoxically, a form of action. It forces the viewer to become a co-creator of meaning. He is currently building a mailbox