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Preparations are underway for my show at The Bridge. 38 days until the opening reception. Postcard design met with a ~few~ scheduling hitches along the way. I capitulated to the calendar and cranked up my ancient graphic design skills, which involved Barry helping me figure out which version of Photoshop to open, creating a 5″ x 7″ postcard I can live with.

The resulting digital art has many favored found items:  brittle scotch tape, worn book binding, textbook bookplate with student signature from first day of school September 8, 1969, red-inked library rubber stamps, and red sharpie X marks-the-spot to really send home the this-book-IS-discarded message. The “Graduating 36” piece colors seem to nestle well.

The back of the postcard has the usual rigamarole, sans indicia.

Frankly, I worked hard to find 28 consecutive and well-placed words to describe my art. I either blather or sit mute. Of pithiness, I know nothing. Honing, distilling, being concise are a challenge. Barry gave it the thumbs up. So as we used to say in the prepress department when we were sick of proofreading and preflighting, PRINT IT!