The great composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a love letter to a mysterious person whom he called his Immortal Beloved. Due to this letter, the mysterious person was found and immortalized but forever attached as a mere footnote to Beethoven's life and genius.

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This series is my search for Immortal Beloved. It is my search for footnotes in history. It is my search for forgotten (or nearly forgotten) people who were trapped in extraordinary events or mundane events or events that some wish to bury forever. And through them, I search for myself, my people, my buried history.

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I search for them in stamps and things connected with stamps. I search for them in private correspondences and clerical paperwork. In letters, envelopes, postmarks, forms, certificates & receipts.

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Stamps are proof of services paid.
Stamps are proof.
Stamps are evidence.

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Chang Yoong Chia
22 January 2013