Postcards is an ongoing archive of more than one hundred drawings based on vintage postcards collected throughout my travels.

The postcard once represented an intimate gesture, like a brief message sent across distance, a tangible record of having experienced a place, and a physical connection between people. It was both correspondence and evidence, quietly proclaiming: I was here, I SAW THIS.

Today, that same impulse has largely migrated online. Social media has transformed personal travel into public performance, extending what was once a message to a single recipient into an image consumed by countless strangers. While the technology has changed, the desire to document, collect, and display experience remains remarkably similar.

The postcards that serve as my source material are themselves constructed memories. Long before digital filters, many were carefully retouched, recolored, and edited to present idealized versions of cities, monuments, and landscapes. They promised an experience that was often cleaner, brighter, and more romantic than reality. The places still exist, but they are now encountered through ticket lines, stanchions, crowds, and the expectations created by mass tourism.

My drawings become another layer of translation. Working from these already mediated images, I intentionally allow inaccuracies to emerge. Buildings shift in proportion, details dissolve into gesture, colors drift, and landmarks become only partially recognizable. The drawings echo their sources while refusing faithful reproduction.

This accumulated archive blurs the distinction between places I have visited, places I know only through inherited images, and places that exist primarily in cultural memory. The viewer is left to question whether these are records of observation, souvenirs of travel, or memories that never belonged to me in the first place.

Rather than documenting geography, Postcards documents the way images travel through time. Each drawing is another copy of a copy: an imperfect translation that reflects how memory itself continually edits, distorts, and reconstructs experience.