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Failed ART Experiment - Postcards

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Swap Coordinator:lookcloselypress (contact)
Swap categories: Art  Postcards  Handmade 
Number of people in swap:6
Location:Other
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:June 8, 2008
Date items must be sent by:June 24, 2008
Number of swap partners:3
Description:

If you make any kind of art, you probably have projects you started out at some point in your past, that just did not turn out. Failures that you can't bring yourself to throw away, because it hurts to throw things away. Well, now there is a way to use those awful pieces of artwork to make somebody else's day slightly better. Make them into postcards!
Here's what you do: Take failed artwork you have created.
Hack off three postcard-sized chunks from it.
Back with cardstock if necessary.
Send one each to three partners (actually mailed, not in envelopes).
If you want, you can include a description on your card of what the artwork was originally intended to be and why it failed.
Any and all media totally welcome.

This swap is international.
Everyone with a 4.5 or higher rating, plus newbies with a completed profile, is welcome to join.
While I am encouraging you to send failed artwork to people, please try and send stuff that, despite its designation as "failure," is still pretty interesting looking and will make awesome postcards. That's why you haven't thrown it away after all this time, right?

Discussion

malangelene 05/28/2008 #

i do this all the time in the spirit of not wasting but i never really get to see other people's failed work. great swap idea.

lookcloselypress 05/28/2008 #

I was inspired to do this as I went through a giant collection of stuff my parents are saving for me in their basement. Lots of unsuccessful projects in there!

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