Thursday 8 March 2012

Postboys

Yes, Rosalind Wicks liked to post her children beside post boxes and photograph them. Her postboys were then sent out into the world as postcards. Rosalind Wicks was a postcard artist who thought both in and out of the box. She posted her boys, ‘by the box’, and then later, ‘in the box’; she posted her boys all over the world. I’ve never met Rosalind, but I phoned her a year or so ago. I said, “I was wondering, did any of your postboys grow up to be postmen?”
To be continued…

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