A Postcard as Measuring Device

For some considerable time now I've been meaning to post about Gracia's most recent Dear You postcard collage zine, and so it gives me great pleasure to introduce (to those of you who may have missed it earlier on) this new and charming publication. A Postcard as Measuring Device (2013) sees the series continue on from Conveyed by the Postal System (2012), and this time we get to head to Durban and the Rose gardens of Butchart's Gardens.

This new zine of imagined travels features some of the saddest tales I've read, with pulled tails being glued back on ("'Just a joke, just a joke,' they coo. ‘Don’t take it so seriously, it was only a bit of fun,' they tell me as they glue my tail back on to my rump.") and a lion tamed ("To be quietly brought into follicular line with a focused snip, snip, snip. With a little fussing, I may, just may, be granted entry to the bar and ballroom. The eternal verity: look the part and they’ll never know."). And it also features some of my favourite postcard collages, and a few familiar landmarks (such as the State Library of Victoria where rodents, as we sleep, rewrite history in the night hours).

This zine also sports a fetching striped spine and has been bound slightly differently to earlier zines. You can expect to see a lot more of this binding technique with a wraparound cover. And a few more zines by the two of us before the year is out, including another one with our good friend Hila.

An edition of 70, you can pick up your very own copy of this zine through our online store for $8.00 (AUD).




















(It's curious to remember that the morning we took these photos of this new zine in hand was on the very same day G and her Mum later made all the biscuits for my artists' book launch at the Baillieu Library.)