Vote Obama (2008)
{A Project by Ken Corbett}
On the evening before the New York presidential primary, as I left my studio, I was greeted by an installation on a community bulletin board. I was immediately captured by the spontaneous gesture of the piece – its good will and hope, and how readily those states resonated with what I was feeling about the following day.
I took a picture of the piece, and have reproduced that image on 5,000 postcards. I’ve bundled the cards in groups of 5 in 1,000 envelopes.
Here is my wish, and my plea for your help:
1. Please send the 5 cards (postage is already affixed to each card) to 5 people you know in various parts of the country. Range far and wide. I would be most happy to see these cards make their way to all 50 states.
2. You will note that on the back of each card, the recipient is instructed to take the card and post it on a community bulletin board (at a day-care center, retirement home, store, lamp-post, workplace lunch room, library…). And, if they are able, to take a picture of the posted card with a digital camera or the camera in their phone, download the image, and send it to kencorbett [at] earthlink [dot] net, along with a short note detailing the card’s new location.
I plan to collect the returned images as a book along with a short essay on the psycho-political action of hope, and the work of community art.
Hoping, Ken Corbett
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To participate please send your postal address to kencorbett [at] earthlink [dot] net and you will receive a packet of postcards
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