Is there something you’ve left unsaid? Something you didn’t say right and would like to say it now? Here’s your chance.
I’m starting the PostScript Project, a way for people to say the things they didn’t say right the first time, to say what was left unsaid, to say what they wanted to say but didn’t. It doesn’t matter if it was 30 years ago or yesterday. It doesn’t matter if it was in a conversation, a snail-mail letter or an email. If you left it unsaid, you can say it now.
Aha! Moment postcard by Bridget Benton ©2009
Use a postcard. An ordinary postcard is fine, or you can create your own postcard. If the Post Office will accept it, that’s all that counts. You can write, draw, paint, glue, tear. Use your imagination. Create a postcard and send it in.
Just to be clear: I am not going to forward your postcard. It will become a page in a group of handmade books I’m making. These books will join the Traveling Journals, whose time is coming to an end.
Need a postcard? I’ll send you a heavy watercolor paper postcard for free. Send me an email with your name and address to rawartjournals [at] gmail [dot] com.
Want to participate? Don’t wait. Say what you left unsaid, and mail it to:
Quinn McDonald
P.O. Box 12183
Glendale, AZ 85318 USA
Here’s the backstory for the journals, for those of you who are worried about contributing to them: If you signed up to add to a journal, you will still get one. But I’m not adding any more names to the project. When I started the journal project, I thought people would sign up, draw or write their contributions, return the journal and I’d scan the pages and send them on.
But like most art projects, it didn’t turn out like I thought it would when I started.
People didn’t send the journals back and I had to phone or write them to remind them. They weren’t always happy to hear from me. Some of them changed their minds about contributing and handed the journals to friends who weren’t on the list. People on the list didn’t want to wait.
I became the journaling police and an administrator, neither of which I wanted to be–I wanted to participate in an art journaling project.
The loose pages idea was the start of a more imaginative turn, but to date, less then 10 percent of the loose pages have been returned. Again, I spent more time reminding people than creating handmade journals from the pages.
I needed a way to involve people but let them be creative when they wanted to, without waiting. So I came up with the idea for the PostScript Project. People who have left things unsaid–in a relationship, in a letter, in any way at all, can write or draw what they still need to say and send it to me on a post card. Any size or material the Post Office will take is fine.
Want to participate? Don’t wait. Be creative. Say what you left unsaid, and mail it to:
Quinn McDonald
P.O. Box 12183
Glendale, AZ 85318 USA
