A series of over thirty postcards bearing a photograph of the postbox into which they were posted. I imagine the postbox as a figure in the landscape; the postcard becomes a collaborative collage between me and the postal technologies.
The project includes cards sent from Finland, Germany, the UK, Faroe Islands and Australia, material evidence of travel to and from a home base, an analogue version of location tracking and social media activity. The wear, accumulation of stamps and other marks formed a kind of analogy with the surveillance and glitches in digital technologies.
Changes in the sending address reflected changes to the social and organisational structures influencing the conditions of the project, another form of data capture analogous to contemporary data tracking techniques.
The challenge of finding increasingly rare post boxes and stamps also contrasted with the global fluidity of mapping mobile applications and online purchases.
© Dierdre Pearce