A wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of patterns found on the interior of envelopes, as well as imagery of some of these envelope patterns that have been enlarged and screen-printed onto 1-meter x 1-meter canvases.

"There are a multitude of patterns inside envelopes that I find both aesthetically pleasing and nostalgic and that I associate with bills, banking, insurance, and the never-ending responsibilities of adult life. These envelopes serve to capture capital from individuals and funnel it to large corporations. In other words, one must square the beauty and nostalgia of the patterns inside the envelopes with the secrecy, obfuscation, and unfettered greed of the financial institutions of late capitalism/neoliberalism, or 'capitalism with the gloves off.' They can be viewed purely formally for their beauty, as one escapes into their pattern, and/or for their sense of obfuscation in a highly financialized and stratified global society in which individuals’ lives are subsumed by large multinational corporations, typified by wealth inequality and laissez-faire governance with regressive taxation and decreased social safety nets."

Mr. Ireland does not make a profit from the sale of his books as his goal is to share his work with as wide as possible of an audience.