Postcards...

I'm a huge fan of the postcard. It has been called the haiku of correspondence. During one 5 week trip across America, I documented sending 483 postcards, sharing our adventure with the masses.

This work was created by me c. 2018
I wish I could be two places at once. If possible, I would be at the British Museum free exhibition, The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard, displaying over 300 postcards by artists who used their work to highlight the major political and social events of the 1960s.
Artists have subverted the common postcard for decades. While the artists’ postcard began as a child of the Conceptual and Fluxus movements of the 1960s, it quickly broadened as an artistic medium to highlight political and social issues, such as feminism, anti-war protest and the fight against AIDS.
"In this, the first major museum display of artists’ postcards, discover both the politics and playfulness of this unique collection of 300 postcards recently gifted to the British Museum by the artists’ postcard expert Jeremy Cooper - ranging from feminist artists such as Lynda Benglis and Hannah Wilke, to Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s anti-Vietnam War is Over postcard and the original invitation to Andy Warhol’s Holy Cow! Silver Clouds!! Holy Cow! exhibition."

 What an ideal way to celebrate National Card & Letter Writing Month. If I only could...

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