Some members may recall my posting of a few of these in the past but given the time of the year and the content of some of them here they are along with a few more.

 

Ah yes the p.m. kind

 

Pretty cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.

 

A couple more,

 

Probably because these above were taken from 1910-17 period, pre WW1 into WW1 era.

 

outstanding views, especially the ones of the small town before WW1.

 

These are great images--deltiology is probably as addictive as horology--and can be pretty expensive too.

In the late 1980s I spent a summer in the south of France--mostly Bordeaux and Montpellier--and at flea markets and shop stalls I purchased a copious number of cards--mostly French, but also some Russian and German cards, and some from God knows where--and these became the basis of an art project that occupied me for a few years. Some of the cards were treated directly with ink and dispersions, which I could manage to do easily enough while traveling. That's one advantage of postcards--they are small. A couple of these are pictured below.

Back home in the states over the next two years, I tried something else: some postcards were photographed with an 8x10, then printed about 4 x 6 feet--then mounted on canvas--then treated again with chemical dispersions. I was naive and reckless back then, breathing in way too much asphaltum--but the results were very satisfying. A few of these are also pictured below.

NB the photos are not great--they are scans from 35mm duplicates from the late 1980s/early 1990s--.

Postcard paintings:








The larger dispersion paintings:

 

Thanks for the kind comment--.

The postcard paintings and dispersion studies were largely just that--studies for the larger photographs. There's a lot of repetition and variation in an effort to work out certain material/visual issues. Ultimately, a lot of them ended up getting thrown out, or given away to friends, or lost in the many moves I've made since the late 1980s. But a few have stayed with me:






The larger dispersion paintings--these are about 4 x 7 feet:






They are the work of a young artist in love with epic themes--. Things changed a lot over the decades, but I'm just now puttering through my archive (not to self: it means you are getting old), and the thread on the postcards caught my eye so I wanted to add a little to it.

 

Thanks for sharing your work. It is wonderful to have a physical "archive" of one's creativity upon which to reflect.

From previous posts I recall that you are located in upstate NY. Stay warm, my friend. Only a few more months until trout season. Cheers!