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A postcard can be a way to keep our dear ones dear, by offering them something of us to see & touch. Use this card to let someone know you are thinking of them.
Choose a Friend
Shannon Donohue
Directions:
1. Choose a friend.
2. Select a craft object that reminds you of your friend.
3. Choose a drawing utensil (or maybe you like to paint?).
4. Draw the craft object in the empty space on the other side of this card.
5. Do you know your friend’s address?
6. Do you know your own address?
7. Do you have enough postage?
8. Did you put 5–7 where they belong?
9. Drop this card in the post!
Biography
Shannon Donohue
They/Them/Their
Written by Lexie Harvey
Objects, proximity, and memory are often brought up in this program, both in and outside of class conversations. The feeling that is conjured when picking up a cup, for instance, and the ways that act can then trigger a memory of a particular place or person. Often those people are those who you’ve hugged or seen smile; and the places are those that you’ve known and felt with your senses. Memory can be a force that gathers, bringing that which you want closer. The closeness that the 2022 cohort has managed to cultivate during the past year while being physically separated by pandemic restrictions and miles of distance between them is remarkable, and deeply touching.
In the last year, I’ve been lucky enough to be grouped with Shannon Donohue for many projects. They are a fierce and compassionate editor, and are good at helping me take my writing just a little bit further by reminding me of the worth of my own curiosity. This has become invaluable during this strange, stagnant, full, hopeful year. Their research reflects the ways that they have made many places their home, traveling from the Southeast to the Southwest, living now in Portland, Oregon. Shannon’s research often lands in the connective spaces between objects and ideas, connecting ideas of display and displacement through objects and drawing from the everyday acts of intimacy of discovering a new place or a new home.