Gadget's gallery 33 - Postal Art

Many years ago, I was sitting in a coffee shop, feeling creative and motivated, but I had no medium to work with. On the wall of the coffee shop, I found a rack of free postcards, so I grabbed a few of them, borrowed a pen, and started to draw. On some cards I did sketches, on others, I defaced the advertisements. On others, I wrote words, poetry, or archaic symbols. In all cases, I promptly stamped and addressed the postcards and droped them in the mail without a signature or return address.

Since then, I've grown attatched to the unanimity and random nature of my postcards. They're become one of my favorite mediums in my pursuit of "random act of kindness". For the recipient, the cards are often mysterious in origin, unexplainable in content, and have no real message, yet they are unique and interesting. I can't tell you how many times I've seen my postcards at parties or on friends' refridgerators, knowing all the time that it's driving them crazy. It's even better when other friends see postcards similar to the ones that they have received, and together they try to discern the enigma of where they came from. In addition, I'm attracted to the process of letting go that is inherent to using the mail as a medium. I find that the uncertainty of the mail... the when, where, if, and what... is an important part of the work and, in a way, is an important part of my character.

While I have worked on many postal projects, there are only a handful that I have documented.

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