PostSecret 2

New PostSecrets come out on Sunday! I'm becoming rather obsessive compulsive about these darn little things. I've collected over 100 of them from various websites and am currently working ona website to post them all on, I'll let you know when I finish. In the meantime here's some new info about PostSecret...

The Reading Public Museum in PA is having an exhibit of PostSecrets from June - October. Sadly I live nowhere near PA, but if any of you do you should check it out and think fondly of me while you do!

Here's the link & info:
http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/exhibits/events/postsecret.html

(posted here for your viewing pleasure)

PostSecret
June 17 - October 8, 2006

What is your deepest, darkest secret? In this extraordinary exhibition at Reading Public Museum, PostSecret post cards showcase secrets shared from around the world. They deal with religion, suicide, violence, drugs, deception, loneliness, love, family and hope.

PostSecret is a worldwide community art project started by Frank Warren in November 2004. He invited strangers at Metro stations, Washington, D.C. art galleries, and used book shops to write down and illustrate a secret anonymously on a post card and mail it to him. The secret had to be true, and it had to be something that had never been shared with another person. These initial secrets were displayed at an art exhibition in D.C. Soon, Warren created a website, http://postsecret.blogspot.com, where he shares new secrets each week, and invites people to join in the project.

Over one year and over 10,000 secrets later, PostSecret has become an international phenomenon. A new secret is published each week in Washington, D.C.'s The City Paper. In December 2005, a PostSecret book was published sharing the secrets' words and pictures with the world.

In many cases, the illustrations on these cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text. If art is a mirror reflecting ourselves, then PostSecret casts a revealing light onto our inner lives, showing the best and worst of what dwells there. Frank Warren calls them “graphic haiku.”

This exhibition is underwritten by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Reading Public Museum, 500 Museum Road, Reading, PA 19611-1425Telephone: 610-371-5850 - Fax: 610-371-5632