Mail Art inspired by an Orange Crush bottle

 

Responding to a mail art call with the theme Message in a Bottle here is the piece off to Germany with a story.

40 years ago, after a big winter storm, my mom and I found a deep bed of eel grass that had been pushed up out of Nantucket Sound onto the beach.  We found an old Orange Crush bottle. The painted label had worn away and we wondered if it had been floating in the Atlantic since the 1940s. The bottle spent decades on a kitchen windowsill on Cape Cod until it found its way to my home in San Francisco.
 
The bottle is a time traveler.  The bottle is the message.