I consider these postcards part of the Liberate Your Art (LYA2014) exchange I participated in last month. It brought more than 200 artists from 10 countries exchanging their art printed on postcards and sent by snail mail! It was so much fun bonding that there were offers to swap more postcards and these are the after-swap cards:
I received the first postcard from Sheila Delgado, USA:
Sheila included a quote from Georgia O'Keefe in the back of this card:
"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.
Making your unknown known is the important thing."
Thank you, Sheila. Sheila and I are constantly in touch at FB.
More works from Sheila at:
www.sheiladelgado.com\
The second card I received came from Janice Darby, USA:
Janice wrote at the back:
"Hope you catch some sunshine! Love from California, Janice"
I am certainly living in sunshine place, Janice.
We only have two seasons in the Philippines: wet and dry. When it is the dry season it can get very hot at 36 degrees centigrade and people are literally sweating it out like now. But when the wet season comes in it can get extreme as well since we get floods and storms! Anyway, thank you for such a wonderful art, Janice, and I hope you get the right weather in your parts. More of Janice's works in her blog:
janicedarby.blogspot.com
The third postcard I received just this morning came from Deanie Houghtaling, USA, of her Dahlia photos from her last trip to Jardin des Plantes, Paris:
Deanie included a quote from Georgia O'Keefe as well:
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want to see it whether they want to or not."
Thank you, Deanie! I love looking and connecting to flowers and nature as well!
All these cards are precious and the thoughts that went into each of these art sent the old-fashioned way connects people and creatives into an inspiring community. I just regret that I can not give justice to them since my phone camera is a blah. But the post office is on schedule since I would normally receive mails from the USA in a month. The first postcard arrived in two weeks and the last in a month!
And the best part of this exchange is you continue to bond with these artists and share creative works and family life long after the swap has ended. . . .
