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Judith G. Levy
Sappho Beach, Glory, Kansas
I was inspired to create this postcard, because of the lack of both support and legal protection for LGBTQIA citizen in Kansas, where I live. Very few towns and cities offer protection against hate crimes or discrimination. After moving to Kansas, I was struck by how this state was, at one time, the seat of the Populist movement and far more committed to progressive politics than it is today. This imaginary landscape conjures up a different story. This work is from an ongoing series, Panoramic Postcards, and is created by digitally extracting details from many, found, illustrated postcards to address American history and culture and to use the souvenir construct in a confrontational way. I studied postcard language in order to create the text, as I mimic style but alter traditional ideas about content. |