Wearable archival artwork
I’ve been working on a conceptual archival project based on real vintage postcards found at flea markets and antique shops around the world.
Instead of using the illustrated front side, I transfer the backs of these postcards onto garments — preserving the original handwriting, addresses, stamps, postal marks, and small personal messages written by strangers across different decades.
I’m interested in the idea of unofficial human history: fragments of private communication that were never meant for museums, textbooks, or institutional archives, yet still carry traces of real human presence, memory, and emotion.
By transferring these documents onto clothing, I wanted the work to exist somewhere between garment, archive, historical artifact, and conceptual object.
This is one of the first pieces from the project. I’d genuinely love to hear any thoughts or conceptual critiques.