SEND A FRIEND
“Mail art has no history, only a present.” – Ray Johnson
SEND A FRIEND is a mail art project by Maya Pindyck & Carla Repice that uses postcards– objects meant to be handled, sent and received– to bridge political and ideological differences. It features a set of twelve original photomontage postcards, each produced in limited sets of 100. Each postcard pairs altered images with text written by selected poets, scholars, and novelists.The lines of text are stripped of authorship and recontextualized to emphasize their capacities for connection.
Each month, the artists mail postcards to 100 people in the U.S. across party lines: Republicans, Democrats, and third-party voters. Aiming to break through the barriers that separate us from each other, Pindyck and Repice send postcards that offer an alternative way of speaking, thinking, and feeling our shared humanity. The artists conceive of the postcard, too, as a friend: a vehicle for connection.
Lines and Authors
“If there’s a thing like freedom and you
use it I will love a thing about you.”
–Lauren Berlant
“There is the happiness you have.
And the happiness you deserve.”
–Jericho Brown
“come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.”
–Lucille Clifton
“Is sorrow the true wild?”
–Ross Gay
“You are who I love”
–Aracelis Girmay
“Care is the antidote to violence.”
–Saidiya Hartman
“People have done this before, but not us.”
–Ada Limón
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough.”
–Toni Morrison
“In my dream I apologize to everyone I meet.”
–Claudia Rankine
“How to care for the injured body,
the kind of body that can’t hold
the content of its living?”
–Claudia Rankine
“Is it strange to say love is a language
Few practice, but all, or near all speak?”
–Tracy K. Smith
“Without hope we are lost.”
–Mahmoud Darwish
Contact Us
The artists determine the postcard recipients based on recommendations from their constellation of family and friends, but anyone can submit the name and address of a future recipient. Each postcard includes this url should the receiver wish to respond to the sender or offer the name and address of a new recipient.