Post Card Quilt Pattern Draft

Postcard Quilt, 2025 4 ft x 2.6 ft.  64 postcards, black, blue, grey, and red embroidery and sashiko thread. 

Each of these 64 postcards is addressed to Liberty Cycle, a local bicycle shop owned and operated by the Cordasco family.

The artist’s father, Greg Cordasco, opened the shop in 1992. During its 25+ years of operation, community members sent postcards to the shop, which Greg then adhered to the ceiling in a designated hallway with a staple gun or sticky tack. 

After his passing and the shops' closing, the artist saved the conglomeration of cards, scanned each one, and then cut and mended the originals into a quilt pattern.
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This piece will be installed as eight columns, suspended in air with a fishing line. Each column is 8 postcards tall. The movement of people in the space triggers a kinetic quality in the piece. It is to be viewed in the round. If viewers look closely, they can read fragments of postcards, and if they step back, they can see a larger pattern.