In 2013, Japanese artist Saya Kubota created a living art installation on the small island Awashima in Japan for the Art Setouchi Triennale, and that continues to this day. The post office on the island closed because of declining population, but Kubota reopened it as an art centre titled The Missing Post Office with the purpose of housing undelivered letters that the public can visit and read. It is open for only a few hours each week, and visitors are invited to write to their future or past selves, or to anyone they wish to speak to. The letters which will not be sent into the world, are then tended to by retired postmaster, ninety-one-year-old, Nakata-san, who acts as a caretaker and guide. As Kubota noted: “In a world where connection has disconnected us, I was drawn to the simple act of writing to someone who will never answer, an act of healing on one hand, and an act of listening on the other.”