A Weekly Postcard Project
209 Weeks is a weekly postcard art project that will take place during Trump’s second term.
Despite the 2024 presidential election results, I believe that most people truly care about others. To remind myself of that truth, I am proposing a postcard based art project to help us connect with each other and make it through four more years of Trumpism. But I need your help. I want to gather your words of sustenance—your favorite quotes, lines of poetry, affirmations, reminders that feed and fuel you—and send those words on to someone else.
I will combine these words of sustenance with photography to create unique postcards——209 in total, one for each week of the presidential term. Each week, someone who has submitted their own words to the project will receive a postcard with someone else’s words on it. You can learn more here.
I am currently looking for approximately 55 participants for Year 1 (2025). If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below. Thank you!
View the Postcards
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Week 9 of 209 Weeks
Week 9 of 209 Weeks: “We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and improving our lives.” —Maya Angelou Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in November or December 2021.
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Week 8 of 209 Weeks
Week 8 of 209 Weeks: “Freedom is indivisible and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.” —June Jordan Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Cheonggyecheon stream is Seoul, South Korea in September or October 2018. This stream had been covered by…
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Week 7 of 209 Weeks
Week 7 of 209 Weeks: “WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE / OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS REVOLT AGAINST IT / WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE.” —Frank Bidart, “Guilty of Dust” Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in November or December 2021.
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Week 6 of 209 Weeks
Week 6 of 209 Weeks: “It can be overwhelming to witness/experience/take in all of the injustices of the moment; the good news is that they’re all connected. So if your little corner of work involves pulling at one of the threads, you’re helping to unravel the whole damn cloth.” —Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Photo Notes: This photo was…
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Week 5 of 209 Weeks
Week 5 of 209 Weeks: “As I listen to them, I hear another whisper from the swaying stand of cattails, from spruce boughs in the wind, a reminder that caring is not abstract.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in November–December 2021.
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Week 4 of 209 Weeks
Week 4 of 209 Weeks: “resist cultivate joy hold space” Photo Notes: Taken at Pacem in Terris in Nov–Dec 2021.
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Week 3 of 209 Weeks
Week 3 of 209 Weeks: “People have been good at imagining the end of the worlds, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.” —Rebecca Solnit Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MIN in Nov–Dec 2021. Even though it…
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Week 2 of 209 Weeks
Week 2 of 209 Weeks: “The fact that we hope, even though we know what is going on, is what makes us wonderful.” —Arundhati Roy Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in Nov–Dec 2021. These were the tiniest acorn caps I’d ever seen.
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Week 1 of 209 Weeks
Week 1 of 209 Weeks: “Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.” —Neal Shusterman in Unsouled Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Geonsancheon Stream in Jeonju, South Korea in September of October 2018.