Kristen Riggle
  • Relational
    • Public Cards of Affection
    • Bus Stop Bunny
    • Monument
    • Cut. Tie. Repeat.
    • Eight Eighty Eight
    • Call For Submissions
    • Pull the Friend Card
    • For your convenience at social gatherings especially at art openings
    • Charcoal Collective
    • Shedding Walls
    • Valley of Heads
  • Objects
    • Petals For Your Pockets: Here & Now
    • Take Me Back
    • Blue Bunny with Basket
    • We Are One
    • Sanctuary
    • Post
    • Look At Us
    • The Wheel
    • All Moved In
    • How To Forget
    • Trash from pockets of people looking at art
    • Catcher
    • Honey Catcher
    • 13 Hours of Chewing Gum from a Gum Ball Machine
    • Keep it up
    • Squeeze
    • Habit Feeding
  • CV
  • Statement
  • SAY HI
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.
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