DEAR FRIENDS:
As I embark on projects with longer timelines, the way I distribute my work is evolving. I need a new way to communicate the work, and I want it to be more personal than an email or a social media post. At the same time, I need a way to share the parts of my practice that I enjoy most: the experience of an evolving process, the buildup of a story, the details that accumulate until an actual object manifests in the real world. These parts of a practice are hard to own, but they are easy to commemorate.
One of the ways I commemorate my field projects is through a postcard that functions as my timecard for clocking in and out while also logging the details of my activities each time I am on Kelleys Island. These cards are mailed from Kelleys Island in duplicate to the archive for my project which is housed at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and to my studio on the mainland for my record.
These handwritten postcards track the developments of my project in real time, complete with regional postmarks from the island and the surrounding area. Today, I'm announcing that I will be using these cards to share personal messages about the details of my work on Kelleys Island, sent direct to your mailbox, too.
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