Leonore Tawney, fiber artist, also created a series of wondrous postcards.
Each card is a tiny, stand-alone work of art. She uses photos,
text torn from books, bird wings, tiny notations in black ink, quotes,
comments, sheet music, drawings, stamps. She addresses the cards
playfully. The post office collaborates delivering her posts to their
destinations. Her cards are so inventive and breathtakingly beautiful the
recipients of her mail art could not bear to throw them away. Seen as a series,
her cards are a visual journal of destinations she visited, both in the
physical world and the world of her spirit.
A collection of her montage postcards has been assembled by Harold
Cotter and published by Pomegranate Press in an inspiring book called Lenore
Tawney: Signs on the Wind: Postcard Collages.
Anyone who keeps a visual journal or who enjoys the art of the collage and the surprise of odd juxtapositions will find this book a source of inspiration.
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