"Few and far between"
       (in development)
 

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"There are people who think they find the key to their destinies in heredity, others in horoscopes, others again in education. For my part, I believe that I would gain numerous insights into my later life from my collection of picture postcards, if I were to leaf through it again today."

(Walter Benjamin)

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Benjamin was born in the age of the birth of the postcard, today (almost) no one sends postcards anymore. 

Since I was always interested in arcane forms, or those that are discarded, in this collection of small paintings that I conceived for my child, I try to de dust not merely this format, but also some of the  subjects that appear in his world, or have an incidental effect on him. 

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Their narrative is disjointed, between past and present, symbolic (sometimes even allegorical) images follow each other. 

However they form a constellation. Or, a secret link between them exists.

A sort of inventory of the past and the present, sometimes direct citations. 

The paintings are intended to point towards redemption.

 

On a lighter note, the project could also be summed up as:" My family and other animals ".

 

​For the messages on the back of card, for the child, I remembered of the postcards Sol LeWitt sent to Eva Hesse, particularly the postcard " DO "

"... Just stop...doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling....Stop it and just do. Don't worry about cool. Make your own uncool. Make your own world."

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