I would call this a relational artwork. Frank Warren acts as a curator and posts all of these postcards online, every monday (NZ time) there are new ones. They can be funny odd little mannerisms people admit to, light hearted thoughts, or unmentionable secrets and sometimes cries for help. Different people will relate to each one, they are from all ages and all walks of life and i think it is comforting to know that someone feels the same way you do, and comforting to the authors that they can get something off their chest. You can respond to these postcards via the blog and these responses are printed underneath.
A lot of these people don't seem to be comfortable with not fitting the social norm, i love the above postcard :) I think together they all reveal what it means to be human, and makes it ok to have faults and fears. It is very important to me to consider psychology in my work, and i prefer an audience of 'normal' people rather than those who are art educated. I love to make things for family and friends to make them happy or brighten their day, and love artworks that do this by reaching out to strangers as you would your closest friends. Putting art into public space, especially via the internet gives people who's voices are not usually heard in the art world a chance to express themselves without being judged critically on the artistic merits of what they are doing, it just makes people feel good about themselves i guess :)
This work uses text like me! ( why doesn't me have a capital M but i always has to?)
My text is slightly more negative. I'm actually quite sick of it and don't want to use it anymore but don't want to change it just now because it will require weeks of thought because one thought always leads to seven more and so on...
The text here is similar to mine in that it is a collaboration from lots of people, some of this is typed and some hadwritten. It gives me an idea to take screen shots of my text in its original format then project those somewhere. ou would get a better sense of the setting BUT I don't se many reasons for doing that, and it wouuld look a bit messy.
this is beautiful
I think the industrial revolution was a mishapen howling mutant bastard. humans have not evolved to the point where We (they) are able to use the knowledge of science in life enhancing ways. for gods sake politicians still talk in terms of the economy, fer fuxake how trite. the only country that even seems top concider the emotional wellbeing of its citizens is Bhutan and that has sadly changed. it is an emergency and we need to look out for each other as the corporation wrest control from governments and the howling madness threatens to corrupt love itself
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