An ongoing series of drawings on found postcards.
Much of the Caroline Wright’s practice revolves around a central concern with communication, control and repetition. In The postcard Series, Wright reconfigures an intended narrative by adding or subtracting information to present an alternative understanding. The use of everyday media - biro, pencil and permanent marker pen – echoes the choice of the familiar postcard as the support. Many drawn layers are repeatedly built up over a sustained period of time in a ritual fashion and increasing the significance of surface.
The drawings change the postcard into a newly created set of possibilities through heightened features that are removed from their contextual information leaving them timeless and uprooted. The pieces become three-dimensional objects where all aspects hold equal importance, both the front and reverse of the card. Of equal interest is the perceived value of the commonplace postcard as a work of art and how the drawing affects its positioning within history and authorship. The postcards form part of the work made for respond/reply, a research project that looks at the relationship between drawing and writing. A poem written by George Szirtes in reponse to the image illustrated below is published in Black Box Manifold -
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