Postcard Project

Postcard 1

This is the barn I grew up playing in, it was like a playground to me. But now it is old, falling apart, and is just unsafe to be in now. I wanted to depict how metaphorically "the sun has set" on the barn being my own personal little playground. The idea of it being a playground is now in the past. The barn is in the daytime while sky is a starry night, this is an unnatural occurrence. A slide is something you normally find in a playground not attached to a barn. It is no longer the barn I used to know and play in. We also get a sense of loneliness from the image, the barn is alone, in the dark, and surrounded by the carnage of the structures that used to be beside it.

Postcard 2

This barn is around a hundred years old and used to be surrounded by another barn and other structures that were built around the same time, but now, after all these years it is the only structure left standing.  I wanted to explore why, out of all the other structures, this specific barn is left standing. The two replicas of the barn in the background represent the structures that used to be there. The two barns in the back seem to look forward from the past to the barn in the present, representing what used to be, but is not anymore. This idea is also reinforced by the remains of the past structures on the right.

Postcard 3

I grew up in playing in this barn and it has always meant a lot to me. I use the image of this barn in a lot of my art work and have always been fascinated by it. I wanted to explore how I am, in a sense, glorifying the barn, while in reality, it is just an old barn. The barn is on a cliff overlooking the water from the clouds, as a dragon approach.  This gives it a fantasy feel, like the barn is a castle or is enchanted. The color purple is often a color associated with royalty, enhancing the idea of the barn being a castle. The barn almost seems to have a magical quality to it.

Postcard 4

This barn used to house livestock in the bottom stalls, protecting them from the element, and in the loft farmers stored hay to feed to the animals. The barn used to support life, now at around a hundred years old, the animals are gone and barn is no longer in use and is falling apart. The phrase "we all die in the end" fits the barn, in the sense that it used to support and protect life, outlasted all of the other structures around it, and now it is, in a way, dying. It has lost its purpose and now just sits as its health disintegrates. It is only a matter of time before it reaches the same fate as the structures that had the same purpose.