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Bureaucracy of Intimacy
This project treats postcards not as nostalgic keepsakes, but as intercepted data packets from a broken communication network. Private, handwritten messages are stripped of their context and locked into a rigid public grid, transforming personal mail into anonymous data.
Each postcard in the series displays a random snippet of a stranger's life, completely cut off from its history. The project operates like an act of mass eavesdropping: it is equivalent to picking up a single, random sentence from thousands of different phone calls. You never get the actual story, only the raw background noise of human chatter.
By forcing these postcards into a massive serial sequence, the personal identity of the sender is erased. Intimate greetings, unique handwriting, and signatures lose their emotional value and are flattened into cold, repetitive entries inside a bureaucratic ledger. The postal system itself takes over, swallowing private intimacy and turning it into an industrial archive.
