Artist Rachel Phillips constructs houses from vintage postal ephemera and then photographs them. That would be cool enough, but she takes it farther and transfers those photos onto old envelopes.
From her artist statement:
"This series of photographs blends the domesticity of home with the joy of wilderness, the natural world. The paper houses are built from letters, postcards and envelopes saved through the decades in old shoeboxes by my grandparents and discovered in their attic a few years ago. The images are printed on old envelopes collected from around the world; artifacts from the last centuries. What did the envelopes contain? Where did they come from? In whose mailbox were they delivered? What stories do they tell?"
She has a video of the process that she uses to make the transfers here. (I also like her work new work on photo postcards that she's calling Diviniations.) Makes me itch to make some art.
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