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Project Overview: Dax Tran-Caffee, visual artist, and Mackenzie Fegan, performance artist, collaborate to create the "Full Service Postcard Stand," a street-level performance art piece. The postcard stand is an effort to rejuvinate interest in physical personal letters, which carry much more emotional weight than electronic mail. By tackling the manual labor involved in sending personalized mail, the Postcard Stand makes the USPS again a possibility for the multitude of people who no longer have the time or facility to send personal letters. At the Postcard Stand a passerby can either have an original hand-painted postcard made on the spot by Dax, or have a card from a collection of previously crafted cards. Mackenzie then takes dictation, by manual typewriter, any address to which the person would like the postcard sent, as well as a short message. The postcard is then stamped taken to the post office for delivery.
Photographs from the HOWL! 2005 performance.
Also, as part of our project documentation, we are attempting to catalogue where we send postcards to. These maps describe roughly where these postcards have been mailed. 
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