(Contra)Postcards, Global
06.2022 - present
Contra - antithesis, to understand our lives in a changing world requires a documentation of the many contradictions that we simultaneously hold as true; Our own cognitive dissonance. These artist postcards feature poetry and photography from Architect Derek Russell, from his many travels through the Americas - documenting iconic landscapes that are slowly fading. These postcards subvert the vicarious tropes of exoticism found in traditional souvenirs. Instead, (Contra)Postcards offer a new snapshot of a place, complete with quizzical statements and moral quandaries. Display these artworks on your bookshelf or contribute in the global capitalist network and send messages to your loved ones - an inscribed message in a bottle, sharing stories in order to race extinction.
Always remember, it was stowaway animals and seeds lost in a storm - clinging to life on the backs of debris - that gave way to new species as their ancestors washed ashore to new lands. The legacy of the Galapagos: where, at once we might consider the alien invasive, in another context - through geologic time, cohabitation, and competition, equilibrium is born once again.
(Contra) Postcards are a living catalog of disappearing lands as they begin to shift, change, or vanish altogether. Despite loss, we have multiple remembrances.
Deliver these postcards in your preferred method, but seldom forget that there are more ways than one to send a message.