Homesickness and postcards!

So, while away I got far more homesick than I ever would have thought!! Just ask anyone I was with how mental I went....
You couldn't shut me up about England, and, in a particularly mad moment in Brockiland I decided to buy all the postcards from the UK in the old (sent and not sent) postcards boxes.

This moment of hoarding madness has really been my inspiration, or starting point for this terms project!

The most striking and interesting point about the postcards is actual how little "Englishness" they really portray!
Most are of London, or "quintessentially English" scenes...some Beefeaters and a town crier are included! Megaaa! As the swiss would say...

So yeah, looking at these, I got an insight into the stereotype that perhaps foreigners want to believe of England. Wierd.
And the fact that I bought these as a reminder of home, yet they don't really remind me of home adds to the intrigue.

As I write said postcards are up in studio, so I can't attached any photos. Will post later...

So, after a chat with Pil, he told me to research around this notion of Postcards, and the stigmas attached etc... considering in particular the work of :

MARTIN PARR (boring postcards)
IAIN SINCLAIR

and further to read:

Langdon WInner
" Do artefacts have politics "
(look around us, embedded within objects are political ideas from the people who designed them
- giving the example of Moses who designed bridges on Long Island which couldn't be passed underneath by a bus ( the mode of transport the black community of Long Island used ) preventing certain people from passing into Manhattan.

Engles
"Urban planning of Manchester"

Lucy Lippard
Curator of conceptual art, writer
"On the beaten track"

Archigram - collages of cities - future

Laura Oldfield ford - trying to understand public space through drawing...