Recently I was visualizing a frame that posts up postcards where they’re visible — viewable from both sides.
I thought about rigging up a Calder-mobile and stringing them up. But that thought lasted less time than it took you to read this sentence. My kid had one of those things over her changing table and she liked it. But I’m not going there again.
Two panes of glass came to mind. Like a sandwich. A panini. A window you could peek into or out of. ONEWAY or another. Rotating on a lazy susan base, or something like that. Then laziness took over. Or was it inertia?
Because I like postcards and his postcards kick ass, I briefly mentioned my vague concept to Stevil on the back of a postcard that I sent him the other other day… …puting it out into the universe. Then I left it at that.
Fast forward a few days when and where I found myself in a thrift store and a picture frame jumped out at me. Someone somewhere decided to frame a Sports Illustrated cover featuring Michael Jordan from July 23, 1984.
39 years later it’s sitting in a pile of stuff and I buy it because it’s between two panes of glass sandwiched between a frame within a frame.
It holds onto postcards well, like a window. I’m not sure if I’ll hang it on the wall or just prop it up somewhere. It’s evolving…
seek and you will find sometimes
for $3.50 in a thriftstore
or $700.00 on eBay
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