Personal Postcard List

Statistics for this project, last updated 2.17.08:

First postcard sent: 11.2.04

Postcards sent to date: 316

Current number of recipients: 53 active - 52 inactive

Average number of postcards generated per month: 7

Cities where postcards have been sent:
 

Aberystwyth, Wales Arnold, CA Berkeley, CA Bethlehem, PA Blue Lake, CA Bowling Green, KY Budapest, Hungary Castro Valley, CA Ceredigion, Wales Chicago, IL Concord, CA Cupertino, CA Davis, CA Dublin, Ireland Emeryville, CA Gladstone, OR Grand Rapids, MI Grenoble, France Hercules, CA

Honolulu, HI London, UK Loomis, CA Los Altos, CA Los Gatos, CA Madison, WI Menlo Park, CA Mountain View, CA New Castle, IN New York, NY Newbury, NH North Hollywood, CA North Vancouver, BC Oakland, CA Olympia, WA Pacifica, CA Philadelphia, PA Pine Ridge, SD Pleasant Hill, CA

Polson, MT Port Coquitlam, BC Portland, OR Queen Creek, AZ Rapperswil, Switzerland Regina, SK Richmond, CA Rodeo, CA San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA Santa Clara, CA Santa Cruz, CA Scott's Valley, CA Sunnyvale, CA Tsubaki, Japan Waukegan, IL Whitefish, MT Woodland Hills, CA Woodstock, IL

Originally I thought it wouldn't be in the spirit of the project to keep a record, since I'm really just doing this so I don't have to look at them anymore. However, after horrible amounts of pressure I began to document them, which I am now quite grateful for. Please follow the link below to view all postcards generated since March, 2005. But if you're worried that I haven't been sending you the absolute best postcards I've ever made, you're probably right, so be prepared to be disappointed in me.

Comments/Responses:

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Recipient description of postcard: I've recieved a few! And they are all equally interesting. The latest one was "Repunzel's Tower".

I have to say that the sending of postcards is kind of a lost art. So to recieve postcards in the mail is a great feeling that I think people have lost touch with. Anyways, I love it and always love to hear what you are up to. Yay for puppet shows!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Recipient description of postcard: Full of beautiful images. A curly haired woman with an anchor tattoo on her back extends a hand to caress the face of someone with closed eyes. A flower grows out of her forearm. They are on a pink sea set against an orange sky and off in the distance, a woman rows away with her hair blowing in the wind.

A delicious surprise! I haven't received any mail worth reading in a long while and so this was definitely the highlight of my week. Nostalgia can be so sweet.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Recipient description of postcard: a figure in the center of the card looks like a black ink drawing of myself sitting in contemplation as i float in the mid air or perhaps as i am floating upwards or downwards because there are vertical lines (looks like pencil) from top to bottom of the card which could indicate movement. i almost look like a floating spirit, or a super-hero or a Buddha ... maybe a comparison of like Violet from the movie 'The Incredibles,' floating in a almost fetal/the thinker position... the background colors are two outer thick purple stripes and an inner and larger orange stripe - and i think it's water color.

this made my day, week, year. forever? i love it. i love the colors - they make me calm and happy. i love the position of the figure ... it looks like a wise individual - and i love the fact that i, or whomever it is, is floating in the midst of nothing - yet something. it captures a mood i tend to be in a lot of the time and i am touched that it resembles me on those many levels. especially after almost of year of not seeing you Dax. i am very thankful. this card makes me glad to have had a chance to cross paths with you. THANK YOU!!!

January 2007, postcard from Tsubaki:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, wherever you are.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: handsome grinning man with blonde hair, pink goggles and a dapper moustache.

i got my friend leif some moustache wax for his birthday, it came with a miniature comb. this moustache is equally beautiful, as are the colors of the card. dax's photo strip remind me of a nightmare i had involving bob barker. i awoke in a cold, cold sweat.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: It was a painting called "Ink Tea"

I thought it was pretty interesting, as are all of the postcards that I receive. I'm going to have to gather them all up and send them to you, some time.

October 2007, letter from San Francisco:

Dearest Dax...

I pulled out your beautiful postcard of last June and gasped - again!

My sincere hope is to remain, or be re-instated, on the postcard list. Please please oh pretty please.

September 2007, postcard from Oakland:

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: "SET OF THE SILENT DISCO (ALLEY)", 2007,
W x H = 4.25" x 6" Some kind of structural supports with a person in the shot. Done in blue ball-point. The cross-hatching gives it a sketchy look.

Very cool... except that along the way someone set a wet drink on it so it's got a ring around the bottom right-hand corner... :) And, yes, please keep me on the list! My address is still the same and I am still rocking Expression as usual... Hope all is well with you and yours... PEACE

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: "Kendall College, Grand Rapids, MI" (Aaron)
Portrait of a guy gripping a skull and his fingers are in the eyesockets

sweet portrait, kind of enigmatic. and yes i still get your postcards and yes i enjoy them. thanks dax. from san jose,

Monday, July 9, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: Cute girl lifting/lowering a living room above an iced over body of water.

Thanks for still sending me postcards. You're the sweetest. My address will change, but you still have the right one. I am going to move to DC for law school and I will send you the new address when i know it. love to you.

July 2007, postcard from Newbury

Thursday, June 26, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: ribcage deformation due to corsets sketch

you're welcome for the shower cap. i hope you've put it to good use.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: "Frame From Regina Spektor Video... With Correction"

Hi Dax,

Just received my first postcard in the mail today. It was the most wonderful fluffy, butter cream icing on a fantastically gorgeous Montana summer day of a cake.

Please keep 'em coming!

Kindest regards,

June 2007, postcard from Pleasant Hill:

I'm building a hobbit hole
deep in a redwood bole
all of recycled timber
on a slope. I'm limber
perched on a fern hill
and the pirates are real
for giants and snails
Ho, sharp knifes, steep trails
Shallow bays keep them at bay... today

2007, silver print postcard from Canada

Oasis, sanctuary
Haven within
Time stands still
Alongside the endless
Orchestrations
Chimes, chatter
Steamwhistles and thrills
Of newfound friends
Walking along the folded
And moments tribute
To life from the heart
Lived uncluttered and free
Time spent effortlessly
Over a coffee
Or tea
To Life!

2007, postcard from Polson

Hi Dax - Just wanted to thank you for the postcard you sent a few months back. Great! I would love to get more. Take care,

2007, postcard from Concord:

I can't even begin to tell you how amazing + exciting it is to recieve one of your post cards - I thought I'd finelly return the favor.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: "will there be pretty girls in space?"

When it arrived, I turned it over with breathless anticipation. On the front, I was greeted by a hot astronaut, in a manga-style outer space environment. It was painted on heavy watercolor paper, inked with sharpie, watercolor and highlighted with colored pencil. A fantastic mini-masterpiece!

May 2007, package from Santa Cruz:

May 2007, postcard from Santa Cruz:

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: Piñata.

Trains and rain and snow.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: Beautiful female, 3/4 back bathing in the light of a giant olive

you've inspired me to mail my original black and white photographs as an answer to your posting...you'll receive it relatively soon...oh and I have a new address,

ps. I loved what you wrote about the daily explosion of children.

March 2007, postcard from San Francisco:

And away, you santee
My dear Annie
Ohhh you New York girls
Can't you dance the polka?

March 2007, postcard from San Francisco:

Our boots + clothes are all in pawn
(Go down, you blood red roses, go down)
And it's flamin drafty round cape horn
(Go down, you blood red roses, go down -
Oh you pinks and posies,
Go down, you blood red roses, go down)

My dear old mother said to me
'My dearest son, come home from sea'

It's round Cape Horn we all must go
Round Cape Horn in the frost and snow

You got your advance + to sea you'll go
Chase them whales in the frost + snow

Round Cape Horn you got to go
For that is where the whalefish blow

Its growl you may but go you must
Growl too much, your head they'll bust

One more pull + that will do
For we're the boys to kick er through

March 2007, postcard from San Francisco

Santayana fought for Spain
(Heave away Santayana)
He fought for Spain and gained his name
(All on the plains of Mexico
And it's heave her up and away we go
Heave away Santayana
Heave her up + away we'll go
All on the plains of Mexico)

Oh Santayana gained the day
And General Taylor ran away

Oh General Taylor he ran away
At Molly Del Rey he ganed his fame

When I was a young man in my prime
I'd kiss them pretty girls two at a time

But now I'm old + going grey
Oh rum's my sweetheart every day

March 2007, postcard from San Francisco:

Hi Waxy Daxy!

How you be? I really dug youre fairy 'n silly-looking monster (it was actually a love of tongue hair, but don't tell anyone)

March 2007, postcard from Costa Rica:

If you met a man in a butterfly costume and you knew he had a good reason for the disguise you wouldn't reveal his identity, (which happens to be Greg Filcher) would you?

Friday, February 16, 2007

Recipient description of postcard: It reads: "Nothing will get in" is something I found tagged on a paper towell [sic] dispenser in Oakland- What does it mean???

I reflect this postcard's sentiment: What does it mean? Otherwise rough but poignant.

[side note for artists: I've moved. I keep moving around though. But if another one is sent, maybe whoever I cede the apartment to would enjoy stealing it.]

Thursday, Oct 26, 2006

Recipient description of postcard: This postcard is a watercolor portrait of an unknown woman. The title is Torreyanna at Breakfast. I am assuming that this is the young lady's name.

It makes me smile to receive a postcard, but gives me a shit eating grin to receive a hand painted DAX TRAN CAFFEE original.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Recipient description of postcard: Art appreciation through the eyes of a robotic life form.

Not too long ago I had assumed that very same posture in front of a framed chef d'oeuvre. It was Monet! How at awe I remember I was. I totally saw myself as that elaborate robotic life form or should I say I wish I could be that cute! My heart lept with joy as I recognized "postcard from Dax!" You certainly brightened my day sweetheart. Thanks again for the many joys you brought into my life. More precisely, you are JOY! XOXO

Friday, October 6, 2006

Recipient description of postcard: looks to be a studebaker with engine trouble in a cornfield and someone - presumably Iona - standing nearby.

It was with great joy in my scabby old heart that I received and read your card today.  Did I write you a letter of rec for this school you are in?  I vaguely recall I did.  It is one of my all time favorite towns but mainly for it's largely heterosexual citizenry... it reminds me of the old days when everyone checked you out.  I still need to send you a few of the cutest pictures of you - you may ever own.  I will someday.

toodleoo dear one... stay in touch thank you for the card
xxg

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Hey,

You've sent me two postcards now and I just wanted to let you know they're not disappearing into the void.  I've received each one with delight.  You do wonderful work, and I love the idea of your postcard project.  It's such a treat to receive good original art in the mail!  (Actually, *as* the mail.)  The antelope painting is on display downstairs.

Thank you for the art, and happy travels