Monday, March 5, 2007

Postcards

For my postcard project, I've chosen to create a relationship between Johns Hopkins and Harriet Tubman. To do this, I would like to do both sides of each postcard and have the clear relationship in their written messages to each other. Basically, Tubman is writing in the present time period to the deceased Hopkins for money to rescue poor/exploited children. The pictures are related to their written messages and, therefore relate to each other, however one wold not know this without understanding the written messages.

The actual pictures, as seen in the sketch, are a digital picture of a railroad track (representing Tubman), with 3D scan of linen as the sky background (representing the exploitation of the children), possibly a 2D scan of an exploited child. The other postcard involves a digital picture of money (representing the wealth and generosity of Hopkins), a 3D scan of a book and possibly a 2D scan of the medical symbol caduceus (representing Hopkins' standards for healthcare and education, which relate directly to Tubman's cause). I'd like to mount these postcards in front of a mirror so that a viewer can read the backs to the postcards and experience both postcards in their entirety.

1 comment:

Fereshteh said...

Cassie, I like the idea of making the postcards sculptural with the mirror, but as postcards, people would also be able to handle them and pick them up... Is there a particular reason you want th mirror? Also, I'd like to know if you have written the text yet?