Mail Art

For week three in Idea and Form, we were assigned to "make meaning out of images" and create 5 postcards that create a feeling; we could pair the images with text and different mediums to further instill out point of view, and then we were instructed to mail them out asking the recipient to "Add to and Return". This could be anything from adding more images, commenting on the postcard, modifying it, etc.

For my postcards, I chose inspiring little notes and quotes of simple truths that I hoped would inspire the 5 complete strangers I sent my little compositions to. I understand I'm taking a risk with sending them to strangers and not family and friends, but I think the idea of "random acts of kindness" is much more exciting than just mailing them to people in my life. Below are the backs and fronts to my postcards with the happy and somewhat truthful little quotes written below.


Postcard #1

"These are all the street signs for this area but

he keeps moving them around at night so the

only people who aren't lost all the time are the

children who never pay attention to signs

anyways."

Postcard#2

"King of Hearts idly playing a game of people."


Postcard #3

"Almost everyone has a family, and almost no

one's is functional."


Postcard #4

Postcard #5

"I remember when whales had wings, she said.

Whatever happened? I said. It got to be too

noisey with all the airplanes and other stuff, so

they flew into the ocean and never came back.

Somedays, she added, I think about going too."