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Everyone is familiar with the obvious vacation postcards from tourist attractions, historical sites or the “Greetings from …” romantic locations, but a majority of our travel time can be spent at non-romantic, less than exciting locales - that's the primary theme of this project. Those non-descript, rather mundane places are part of the vacation/holiday narrative and actually provide a context for the more memorable experiences. This project expands the concept of my 2016 “Americana Road Trip” series to a new global perspective.


International artists were invited to interpret this theme and submit their postcards with the “You could be here!” visual tag integrated into their imagery. By doing so, the mostly generic postcards convey a sense of irony and sarcasm to the potential recipients and also elevates the mundane, often boring locales to a new level of appreciation. 


A very special “Thank You!” goes out to those artists who accepted the challenge.


Jack the Hack (aka Gary A. Bibb)


The postcards will become part of the permanent collection of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction.

1925 Rosina St
Santa Fe, NM 87505

USA