POSTCARDS
An artist friend in Oregon and I started a sharing of painted postcards after I moved to Malaysia in 1997. The 11-year project meant sending a postcard every Monday to Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and finally Vienna. Each summer we reestablished the direction of the annual postcards from weekly and/or monthly topics to identical monthly bags of collage materials. Our project kept our thoughts and art experiences flowing, our strong friendship connected. After the project ended with over 1030 small paintings in 2011, ‘postcard withdrawal’ had me sending my weekly postcard home to myself in Oregon. The problem was that I was in Vienna! While not completed every Monday, the continuation of my postcard-sized paintings gave me a venue for conversing with my visual voice; a means for processing life through historic reflections and current observations, concerns, humor and global curiosities. These smaller sized paintings represent a few examples of the collection. Small = 10x15cm/4”x6”; 100€ Medium = 12.5 x 17.5cm/5”x7”;120€ Large = 15x20cm/6”x8”;150€)
1. VIRAL NEWS (M)
2. FACE THE WORLD (M)
3. INNER EGG (M)
4. FLOATING ON ABANDON (M)
5. GOOD HARD LOOK (M)
6. HOT TOPIC (M)
7. CIRCLE of SADNESS (M)
8. DELIVERANCE (M)
9. TODAY? (M)
10. THE WHO, WHAT and WHERE (M)
11. ALL MINE (M)
12. ACCESSORIES (M)
13. ARE YOU SURE? (M)
14. BEYOND WISDOM (M)
15. BLACKBIRD (M)
16. CHERISHED PROTECTOR (M)
17. EN ROUTE (M)
18. WITH HOPE AND FEAR (M)
19. A GRIP ON THE PAST (M)
20. LIFE SAVER (L)
21. WEATHER OR NOT (M)
22. SUCH HATE - BLINDED BY THE RIGHT (M)
23. SWIRLING JUDGEMENTS (M)
24. STAGE FRIGHT (M)
25. SNOW-BIRD (M)
26. DOUBLE VISION (M)
27. READING INTO THE CRYSTAL BALL (M)
28. PIERCING KNOWLEDGE (M)
29. SKATING AROUND COCK (L)
30. RIDING THE WAVE (L)
31. CURTAIN CALL (L)
32. FAKE NEWS (L)
33. BE WILDERED BE ME (L)