Thanks very much! The genesis of the whole project is my having inherited my grandmother's postcard collection, a frankly overwhelming assemblage of thousands of travel, fine arts, and publicity offerings collected over a 60 year period. Nearly all are unused - these were not postcards she sent or received, merely objects she collected.

For years, I was perplexed by the question of what to do with them all. Surely they're good for something, but I don't have all that many friends to whom it makes sense to send regular snail mail.

The initial epiphany came from the Oh No pin, from webcomic artist Alex Norris. I was immediately struck by the comedy potential of recontextualizing existing postcards through its addition, and rifling through the collection, I realized there were many cards for which this gag would work. So I started putting up a different card each day, with that same gag.

I realized not long after that I could similarly incorporate cards from The Alleyman Tarot from The Publishing Goblin, which had been delivered earlier that year. What drew me to back that project in the first place was the appeal of having such an enormous diversity of artists in a single deck, and putting up a different card every day offered an opportunity to engage with the deck as a work and with the rest of the postcard collection in new ways.

By the time I started posting daily to cohost (several months after the first photo was actually taken), the project had already gone off the rails. I took stock of other appropriate ephemera I already owned (including a backlog of game assets that have otherwise collected dust for decades) and sought ways to expand further, with a particular eye toward artists on cohost whose work I wanted to support and, in my own modest way, promote. With what I now have in reserve, I can comfortably continue to put new stuff up daily for years.

As to the ongoing motivation, I see this as a way to enliven my surroundings, to inject that 'pop' of novelty. I find most people almost immediately stop paying attention to their surroundings as soon as a place feels familiar, and this is a way to remind people to continue attending to the little things. Students and coworkers who happen past my office know that there's going to be something new but never know what to expect. Plus, it feels good to force myself to think of new and unexpected combinations, a modest way to work my creativity muscles every morning. Posting these bits to cohost is partly a way of archiving my progress, partly a way to cite my sources, and partly so that a few additional people can enjoy digitally what I'm assembling physically.