Postsecret
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
Postsecret is everything that is great about the internet. What started in 2004 with a few postcards inviting people to contribute a personal secret to a community art project soon grew into an internationally popular website with more than 3 million hits a week.
We bought (this) book which is a reproduction of some of those postcards from the website - there are now four books, with a fifth due shortly.
Each of the postcards is a work of art and a glimpse into the mind of a stranger. The scope of the secrets range from childhood confession to criminal guilt, and in each of them one can discern a considerable cathartic experience. Open the book at any point and you will find something to make you laugh or think about or even cry. One reads, “I envy the willpower of anorexics.” Another, “Sometimes I put coins in people’s parking meters.” Another, “For the first time since I was a baby I am finally happy. I am 28”
Filed by Kieran at October 6th, 2007 under Art