11. FIELD OFFICE COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS
As I embark on projects with longer timelines, the way I distribute my work is evolving. I need a new way to communicate the work, and I want it to be more personal than an email or a social media post. At the same time, I need a way to share the parts of my practice that I enjoy most: the experience of an evolving process, the buildup of a story, the details that accumulate until an actual object manifests in the real world. These parts of a practice are hard to own, but they are easy to commemorate.
One of the ways I commemorate my field projects is through a postcard that functions as my timecard for clocking in and out while also logging the details of my activities each time I am on Kelleys Island. These cards are mailed from Kelleys Island in duplicate to the archive for my project which is housed at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and to my studio on the mainland for my record.
These handwritten postcards track the developments of my project in real time, complete with regional postmarks from the island and the surrounding area. Today, I'm announcing that I will be using these cards to share personal messages about the details of my work on Kelleys Island, sent direct to your mailbox, too.
Think of this like an artist book, dispatched in 24 installments, telling the story as it is unfolding, written to you, personally. It's difficult to put postcards on a bookshelf, so I'll also send you a custom printed box to store these postcards on your bookshelf. I've already received a sample of the first draft of the box, and I'm pleased with how it turned out. The linen finish feels so nice. I just need to make a few revisions to the graphics on the bottom of the box, and I'll send them to print.
More than ever, I need people who are invested in my practice to make it sustainable, and to make the work possible.
Supporting my practice makes it real for you and for me. By purchasing this artist book, you're also making my field practice possible. You're making it possible for me to closely observe, engage and interpret the glacial landscapes on Kelleys Island, and you're enabling me to spend enough time to produce work responsively as I better understand the place.
I’m thrilled to be able to share these stories with you as they unfold on the island and in my studio, and I am grateful for your support. Let me thank you for your sponsorship with this artist book collection of postcards.
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Thank you for your continued support.