It Changes Everything-- Postcard Series

I've developed the habit of using the edge of a postcard as a guide when painting. Almost as much paint ends up on the cards as on the painting itself. As they become soggy, I set them aside to dry, and then reuse. In 2009, I began exclusively using postcards from a box- full leftover from a  group show, It Changes Everything, I was in that year.

After a while, my studio became littered with the cards, and I started to appreciate how all the paint build- up interacted with the color and text. Tacking them to the wall, one after the other, the phrase It Changes Everything was altered in each. Splatters and stains of paint obscured some or all of the title, and sometimes cover the entire surface.

The postcards have morphed from tools, to hybrid tool-as-art and an on-going modular project tracking a near-daily practice of painting.

           

* It Changes Everything was exhibited at Kingston Gallery in Boston in January, 2009.

Painter Sue Post designed the postcard and organized the show, which also included work by Kirstin Lamb, Antoinette Winters, and Hannah Bureau.