Local Postcards: Venice

The first edition of my postcard notepads launched for Summer 2014, featuring 24 postcards capturing Venice, California.

In 2010, I visited LA from New York City with no intention to live here. The visual details of this new place so different from home were a thrill—the architecture, the surfers, the vintage cars, the constant sunshine, the palm trees. I photographed everything I saw daily. At first this city felt like a vacation from my life. Days turned to months and then years, and I realized I was not on vacation, but I was making a home in a new place. Here’s the Venice where I live.

I love sending postcards and more than that, I love receiving them. Postcards are purely for the recipient-they require no reply whatsoever. But today when all communication is instant, digital, and often reactive, a handwritten note on the back of a picture is a treasure. Like twitter, it has a character limit, and like Instagram, it inherently says “look at this place where I am that you are not” but it does so in a gentler, more personal way.  A postcard is proof in written form that someone was somewhere and thought of me. A postcard can be a physical memento because it took actual time and effort to mail in the world of digital keyboard afterthoughts.

I created these cards to share what I like to do in a small way, and to visually capture where I now live. Taking the time to sit down, write – with a pen – something to one specific person, find the mailing address, buy a stamp, and drop a card in a mail bin takes one away from the immediate expectations of the phone and laptop.

Available for purchase at Merchant Modern 3002 Lincoln Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405

or

online through Lincoln & Rose Marketplace.

Lincoln & Rose also wrote an article about me which can be found here.