Thursday, August 12, 2021

Alterations to Vintage Cards

I cut out a bunch of shoes from a 1970's Sears catalog not knowing what I'd do with them.


Of course -  giant shoes in landscapes. What else?

I didn't keep a copy of what I wrote on the reverse for most of these before I sent them off. You can think up your own stories, if you'd like.

A giant shoe on the lawn of the United Daughters of the Confederacy building. Can you imagine how perturbed the ladies were to find this on their lawn?






 I have the story for this one - Who decided on a shoe ornament for the garden was never discovered. The gardeners disliked it immensely. It filled with water when it rained and was hard to drain.

I amuse myself, make myself laugh.

Write a few stories yourself and let me know if you do. 


2 comments:

Tofu said...

These are a great step. It's what would have happened if Imelda Marcos commissioned sculptures by Claes Oldenburg. Do you have any old postcards from Manila?

chris said...

I like that you put a man's shoe in front of the DAR building - they're probably wondering what happened to the other shoe & where's the man who left them.

How did I get into this?

I was asked when I started doing Mailart. Good question. Like many artists, I was making and mailing art without even knowing it had a name ...