For my final project,the artist book, I decided to make a series of postcards using my own images (drawings, photographs, and digital images). The finished product is like a postcard collection, able to be flipped through like a book, but bound with a single keyring.

I chose ten images and edited each one differently in Photoshop. I used various filters, image adjustments, text, and cropping. I printed the images and mounted them to look like real postcards. Then, I punched a small hole in the top left corner of each postcard and attached them all to a keyring so that they could be easily flipped through, and also because it gave the overall piece some aspect of being a book.

I like the idea of artworks that are a collection of things, such as my postcards. Viewers are invited to examine each part of the piece individually in order to take it all in. This type of art has a more interactive quality with its audience. Also, I like the communicative potential of postcards. People often connect the image on the front to the message they are sending, usually to their family, friends, etc. If I was to continue with this project, I would like to give the postcards to my friends and have them right me a message on the back, then collect them again and keep them as a sort of postcard scrapbook.