(Yes, it's another Postcrossing post, sorry.)
I got this postcard in the mail today, sealed in an envelope with a print-out note, clean and understate European cursive on the outside. I don't mind receiving exposed postcards in the mail, as I like the traveled look and the cramped side (would that be verso? Or is the text always recto?) where stamps, address, and terse message fight for space.
The name of the artist was at the bottom, followed by "2007." The note was signed by the artist--she designed this illustration! I thought it was charming and, once I realized it was by a regular civilian who hasn't secluded herself in the ivory towers of professional artistic discipline, well-executed. There's a difference, to me, between artists you could run into on the street and artists who socialize only with other artists, publishing editors, and socialites at parties you will never, ever be invited to or even hear about. So even though I'm not an artist, it feels to me like the person who made this is someone a little more like me than the aforementioned aesthete in his/her rarefied atmosphere. This is someone I could run into on the street (were I in her nation). This is someone I could talk to without her taking offense at my presumption.
So best of luck, Marieke Lambermont, and thank you for the delightful postcard.
2 comments:
I know one such artist. And it is very possible to randomly run into her around town (most likely by catching a glimpse of her gliding by on her bike).
Whittney Streeter
She's an old friend of mine from grade school. Very awesome, if not a little strange, person. I love her Macabre works.
That's very cool. Does she make postcards?
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