Social distancing is a new reality transforming the way we communicate and interact. Our perspectives on social life, as we know it, is being challenged everyday as we reinvent our public lives. The postcard was an essential component of travel though which we let others know we were having a great time and were thinking about them.

This series of Rembrandt postcards, part of my “Interventions”, represent my own way of reinventing, or reclaiming a habit I had years ago to communicate with family and friends while I was traveling.

During these quarantine days, I have gone through years of postcards I have collected. I began to paint, doodle, and collage on a book of postcards of Rembrandt’s Self Portraits. With the notion of the selfie in mind, a modern day version of the self portrait, I began interacting creatively with the postcards. Using clippings, origami papers and loosed drawings, also collected through the years, I am juxtaposing current self-expression techniques, like Instagram filters, with the classical portrait.

I complete the pieces by mailing it to friends and family as a way of extending a message of hope and kindness through creativity.