| I love to travel, and have always been fascinated by maps, postcards, subways and bicycles, trains and tickets. During my undergraduate studies, I spent a semester abroad in London, working in an art gallery and studying art history at the National Gallery, the Tate Britain, and other venues. I have also made trips to Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Montreal, as well as countless cities in the United States. These experiences have proved to substantially impact my life, giving me a broader perspective about the world around me and the people in it. To document these experiences, I began sending postcards as mail art, marking moments in time and place. Mail art, also known as postal or correspondance art, is a small genre of conceptual art that bypasses the traditional art-market venues. It is a unique way to distribute art that questions the perception and presentation of artwork. Mail art can take almost any form, but transport through the postal system is the final step in the art's completion. I use a variety of materials to create mail art postcards, such as paint, oil pastels, charcoal, found objects, paper ephemera, fiber, and collage. Mainly I draw from intuition, spontaneity, and memory to create a visual record of my life experiences. As a creative person, everything that I experience in life influences my design and art sensibilities. I think of postcards as symbolic of my creative journey. |
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