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Contemporary Fiber Art
Archie Brennan

 

M1140
ARCHIE BRENNAN
Drawing Series XXVIII
Postcards X 12
2000
tapestry weave; 30½" X 18" X 10"wide at base as mounted.

12 individual postcards mounted on free standing Plexiglas. Photographed in front of a black cloth.

A portion of the complete message has been written in ink by Archie on each card, which has then been sewn to the back of each individual tapestry panel and actually sent by Archie, as is, through the mail to Lakewood County Museum in Waucondo, Illinois for an exhibition

The message reads from left to right and top to bottom across the width of the three cards:

London, England
It is good
can be mailed
the world, and
 

New York, New York
to know that
from twelve
arrive at one

Paris, France
an artwork
cities around
center

Edinburgh, Scotland
It is even
artwork depicts
it arrives with
 

Brisbane, Australia
more reassuring
a fully exposed
out censure.

Tucson, Arizona
that, when the
female nude
And still more,

Melbourne, Australia
it is especially
of import duties
of twelve post
 

Galway, Eire
rewarding when
or taxation -
cards, - that

Adelaide, Australia
it arrives free
simply as one
will become

Washington D.C.
an artwork
arrived at
 

Portland, Oregon
only when all
the museum

Sydney, Australia
the cards have
gallery.

 

- Archie

Brennan 2000