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Intimate portrait of the world we live in

Jan Patience explains why a few kind words of thanks led to an art degree project which examined the cult of consumerism

You can imagine the look of astonishment on the faces of the office workers who opened art student Harriet Lowther's letters in the last six months, not to mention the senior executives on whose desks they eventually landed.

Take Robert Booth, for example.