Elisa Shoenberger on Hector Canonge: Communicating in the Gaps

In this age of dizzyingly fast communications, we forget how mere decades ago mail was most people’s form of contact. People sent handwritten long letters or even postcards telling them about their adventures. People would have to wait days, sometimes weeks, even months for letters to arrive to learn how their loved ones were doing. There was no guarantee of a reply. This world seems ancient compared to our communications today where we can zip off an email, hop on a video call with someone across the city, the country, or the world.