Either as objects of remembrance or as cheap collectible souvenirs, postcards serve as the interconnectedness of time and space; depicting beautiful sceneries we once saw as tourists, we send them to people we care for or put them on our fridge door as reminders. In this context, a postcard evokes a condition we experienced or a feeling we had, or even a political or social situation, as the intermediary between past and present, and between memories and imagination. But what if we merely intensify postcards’ feature of evocation, while keeping the actual landmarks out of the layout? The condition or the feeling portrayed would be framed within time and would not be eternal, but it would acquire traces of immortality through its depiction and objectification. In a way we are all tourists in one realm or another and what matters is communicating, even with the humble means of a postcard.

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Nikolaos Kachrimanis