Everything feels so temporary now, doesn't it? An endless scroll of things that just disappear. The Postcard Project is my answer to that. It’s about celebrating the slow, the tangible, and the shared experience.

I’m a believer: holding a piece of art in your hand continues a real, physical connection. So, each postcard is a pushback against digitization and a shared celebration of the endangered weight of a paper postcard.

The process turns a fleeting moment into something tangible that lasts. It starts with a photo, a single moment I’ve picked from a pretty huge personal library of images.

From there, I work that image into a real object, printed on heavy, archival paper and personalized with a custom font I made from my own handwriting.

The final step is a postcard’s journey through the mail. That slow, physical trip across distance is the core of the art, really. It transforms a piece of paper into a shared experience.

When you zoom out, I could debate the Postcard Project a long-form performance piece. It's a chronicle, sent out one month at a time. I started it in my 30th year, and the plan is for it to evolve with me for as long as I do it.

Beside evolution, the goal is to create small moments of beauty in a world that rarely slows down. The real value, I hope, will be found in the unexpected connections that we aren’t able to predict yet.

$5 covers the printing and postage costs. Most of the money goes toward sourcing super-premium paper, and any leftover money gets put back into the project.

The QR code on each postcard links to a Digital Journal entry with information about the photo’s date & location, and a form where a note can be written back to the artist. It also includes digital-wallpaper versions of the postcard’s image.

You can view a Digital Journal entry by clicking here.

Yes, but only one more around the holidays. Sign up for a sample print by clicking here. Sign up for monthly postcards by clicking any of the big buttons. To opt out, scan the QR code on the back of your postcard and write back.

The payment processor takes 1% of each transaction and donates it to offsetting carbon emissions. You can learn more about that by clicking here.

Not yet, but hopefully soon. (Please contact me if you have experience applying for grant funding!)

Yes! International addresses are affixed with a USPS Global Forever Stamp and must be deliverable to an address recognized by USPS.

Postcard Project uses a third-party payment processor; you can edit your subscription details with your email address by clicking here.

Write back if you’re missing any postcards (you should have at least one for every month since you signed up) and I’ll send replacements in the mail.

As of Sep ‘24 (3000 series:)
Postcards are printed on 5 × 7 in (12.7 × 17.8 cm), uncoated, 32pt Mohawk Superfine paper.

Postage is applied via USPS Forever stamp. Stamps may vary in design.

Matte-finish, aerosol spray is applied to the frontside (address side) of each postcard to protect against moisture.

The address-side of each postcard is considered the frontside; the frontside is printed in two stages. In the first stage of printing, a vendor prints three elements with a commercial-quality printer:

• guideline areas for USPS mailing regulations (barcode, address, stamp)

• the majority of the artwork label (artist details, project name, artwork medium, dimensions, website)

• four address lines

The remaining elements are considered the second stage of printing. Currently, the second-stage print is executed by the artist on a home-office-quality inkjet printer:

• return address

• printed note written by the artist

• three-digit account number (assigned chronologically in the order a new name was submitted to the project, including test prints & holiday cards)

• QR code linked to a “Digital Journal Entry”

• dividing line

• art labels, including the postcard number, year it was printed, and print edition

• mailing address

Art labels are printed in Times New Roman font. Notes and addresses use a custom font created using handwriting samples.

For subscribers, Postcard Project prints include a serialized postcard number and a print edition. A new edition is created each time an image is sent to the printer. For example, First Edition Prints are the result of the first order sent to the printer. Second Edition, Third Edition, etc. prints occur when a postcard is reordered from the vendor to accommodate revisions to a postcard’s content, an increase in demand, or a lack of supply typically due to errors during the second stage of the printing process.

AP (Artist Proof) prints occur when circumstances during the second stage of printing result in variations that occur within an arbitrary margin of error, and may be applied by hand after the printing process is completed.

An unlimited Open Edition (OE) is produced for complimentary postcards (Test Prints & Holiday Cards) that are mailed before a subscription has been activated.

Once printing is complete, the postcard is affixed with a USPS Forever stamp.

The image-side of each postcard is considered the backside.

Each image is serialized with a four-digit number. The first two digits of the Postcard Number correspond to the age of the artist at the time of mailing. The next numbers correspond to the total number of images printed over the duration of the project.

The backside is considered a giclée art print executed in CMYK using a high-resolution inkjet printer.

A corresponding digital journal entry is linked to each postcard via QR code. Journal entries show the Postcard’s four-digit number and include information about the photo’s date and location.

Each journal entry includes a form where a note can be sent back to the artist, and it includes a cropped Digital Wallpaper of the image that is sized for phone and computer backgrounds.

You can view a Digital Journal entry by clicking here.