- Postcards Job Lot Vintage UK/Foreign Topographical & Subject 1900’s-2000’s, 2021
80 x 60cm. Acrylic paint, ink, paper on tarp.
The postcard, which was purchased by the artist on eBay on 21st October 2020. - Picasso “Lady in Spanish Costume” Barcelona 1917 D4/781, 2021
60 x 40cm. Acrylic paint, ink, paper on tarp.
The postcard, which was purchased for £5.24 by the artist on eBay on 29th January 2021 at 10:46pm from hovebooks - Vintage Postcode job lot, 2021
120 x 100cm. Acrylic paint and ink on cotton.
The postcard, which was purchased for £1.75 by the artist on eBay on 7th January 2021 at 1:10pm from davidc7092 - Elizabeth Adela Forbes “Ring-a Ring-o’Roses” Girls, Newlyn Sunset D4/607, 2021.
40.5 x 30.5cm. Acrylic paint and ink on cotton.
The postcard, which was purchased by the artist for £4.17 on eBay at 19th February 2021 at 1:33am from hovebooks
In this series of paintings, the motifs are images and texts from postcards sold on eBay as vintage goods. Functioning as a postal item, the postcard transforms an experience or event that has happened to the sender into a convenient-sized item, with a written text, and delivers personal information to the addressee. However, the vintage postcard has lost its original purpose, has no address to return to, and no destination to go to. The image of the vintage postcard is itinerant. Here, the artist enlarges and twists these itinerant images and covers them with paint on cotton or a tarp in an attempt to perceive the postcard in motion in its irreversible travels with no destination.