postal yijing
This project transforms each of the 64 hexagrams of the Yijing into postcards, designed to be held, read, reflected on, and mailed. Rather than divination, the cards act as symbolic prompts, inviting introspection to be shared between strangers.
crafting the postcards
Each postcard’s front pairs a hexagram, a diagram of six solid or broken lines, with a short maxim and a film still chosen to evoke the card’s mood. Printed on heavy paper with carefully considered layout, the cards encourage slow, attentive engagement.
Recipients could respond in any form: a sketch, a line of text, a confession, or simply silence.
circulating reflections
Friends I had met over the years who lived in different countries received envelopes containing multiple postcards. Each card already had a recipient’s address pre-assigned on the back.
They were invited to sit with the cards, respond, and mail them to the designated stranger. Over several weeks, this process created a delicate network of exchanged intimacies.
dispersed exchanges
The project produced two intertwined outcomes: a living exchange and a scattered archive of the delivered postcards. Annotated, sketched, stained, or folded, the cards traced how people engaged both with the prompts and with one another.
Taken together, they read like a constellation of private moments, built from envelopes, stamps, and small acts of honesty.
