The Postcard Project

It started with a stamp and a dream...

The Postcard Project began in 2004. I was the postmaster for a small island community in Maine and let's just say I had a lot of free time. The islanders would trickle in to get their mail at about three per hour for eight hours a day. What better a place to keep up with your letter writing than in a post office? So I started writing postcards. I sent postcards every day. It started with sending to just a handful of people, but it seemed to increase daily. Now, after three years, I send to nearly 70 people across the United States, Europe and Asia. I don't send as often as in the beginning (stamps are effing expensive these days!), but I try to get postcards out every-other month or so. I also collect postcards that are sent to me and it is my intention to post them on this blog, along with information that I'd like to share pertaining to mail-art.

The Postcard Project isn't just to occupy my time. Believe it or not, I did get into it with a deeper meaning in mind as well. The Postcard Project is a Mail-Art project that I created to encourage the love of "real" mail. In this technical age it seems that many people forget about the simple pleasures and affection of receiving tangible mail. This project asks it receivers to "LOVE YOUR MAIL!" while promoting art that does not need to be purchased in a gallery and hung on your wall. Art can be fleeting! Art can be disposable! Art can be cherished! Art can be mail!