I spent the month of September traveling europe. While traveling I painted postcards that I then mailed to friends and family. These are those postcards.
Collective Sparks
ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN
When I can’t remember something from Europe, I go back to my sketchbooks and flip around until I find what I’m looking for and then suddenly everything comes back. I feel a special connection with that moment, sometimes remembering a smell, or the song that I was listening to, or what the weather was doing. Thinking about it makes me want to sketch and paint more than I do.
When you look at postcards like these, the inherent time that was spent on them is immediately apparent and they feel more meaningful for it. Both the person who took the time to create them as well as the person receiving them feel a connection that feels more powerful than a photograph on a postcard you could buy at any gift shop, even though they may be of the same image. If these postcards were replicated and reprinted, do you think they would still have that extra value even if you knew the person who produced them? Does that extra value translate to people who might not approach art and design the way we do; is it still recognized?
Of course they would lose the value if they were reproduced. Anything that is one of a kind is better than if its reproduced (generally speaking many exceptions apply). I would argue that people who don’t DO art probably either appreciate/value them more, or just say, eh cool. I think its either extremes in a situation like this. one because they cant do it and dont understand the process themselves, so they love it. Or they are over-satuated with seeing art and dont appreciate it. So in the end, I guess it depends on the person.
walnuts vs cute hipster girl.