I pulled out a box of old postcards from the late 1970s and early 1980s the other day and started looking through them. These were postcards that I had bought as a kid on family vacations (many of which involved riding in the far back of a station wagon without any seat belts … how about that!). I had some ideas running through my head for using them for artistic purposes, but when I happened upon a pair with a similar scene, the ideas came together.
First I saw a postcard from our trip to San Francisco, which was a view of “the crookedest street in the world,” Lombard Street, which has 8 turns in one block. As I continued to flip through my collection of postcards, I then saw one for Highway 34 in Colorado which leads to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park … and it was another curvy road. It made pretty clear sense to me that I should combine these two curvy roads into a surrealist view and see what I could come up with … and here it is:
I’m intrigued by the result and will be doing more vintage postcard mashups!