Contents Abstract eroticism / Michael Petry -- Love letter to Priapus / Fiona Pitt-Kethley -- Love letter / Angela de la Cruz -- Love letters to Verge / Misha Hoekstra -- Regrets letter / Peter Ackroyd -- Room for the reckless / Louise Sudell -- Erotic garden / William Hartman -- The (w)hole in the eye : the erotics of absence / Charles Taylor -- Eros and cyberspace / Kraettli L Epperson -- Law and the erotic / Leo Flynn -- Possession : seriality, sexuality and passion / Nicolas de Oliveira -- I wish you would invade my privacy, scatter my silence / Juliane Jung. Summary This issue of "Art and Design" aims to explore a visual language that evokes the abstract concept, yet remains erotic. It includes: invited "love letters" from many writers, including Kathy Acker, Peter Ackroyd, Fiona Pitt-Kethley and Susan Sontag; work by artists including Janie Antoine, Matthew Barney, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Gary Hill and Rebecca Horn; and writings by Thomas McEvilley, among others