This work is called Public Cards of Affection. It’s essentially greeting cards for strangers. Each of the flaps are folded cards that viewers were invited to take. If a person decided to take one there was a contract underneath to express the understanding of what was required when taking a card and a line for a signature. The agreement was that the participant would write a message on the card to someone they didn't know, place it in a public space and document it with #publiccards along with the edition number.
The writing on the front says “the gift must always move.” This is a line is from the book "The Gift- Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" by Lewis Hyde. Hyde discusses ideas surrounding art as a gift and the struggle to balance authenticity in art-making in such a market driven society. This line refers to the inter workings and history of gift exchange and that in order to fully receive a gift you must also give something to another person and continue its energy to keep it moving.
As people tear off the cards that larger message will slowly fade while many new messages are being formed and passed along to others.
2016.
The writing on the front says “the gift must always move.” This is a line is from the book "The Gift- Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" by Lewis Hyde. Hyde discusses ideas surrounding art as a gift and the struggle to balance authenticity in art-making in such a market driven society. This line refers to the inter workings and history of gift exchange and that in order to fully receive a gift you must also give something to another person and continue its energy to keep it moving.
As people tear off the cards that larger message will slowly fade while many new messages are being formed and passed along to others.
2016.
