August 2025 Postcard from Alex Gildzen:
There can be an art to collecting that goes beyond mere acquisition. As I’d hoped, my Postcard Exchange Project, despite being in its early stages, is proving to be generative of interesting experiences through the act of exchanging postcards. I’ve traded books, artwork, poems, and pleasurable messages through the conceit of trading postcards.
My most recent postcard exchange even generated a treasure trove of archival material that includes the exhibition catalog of another kindred spirit who knows how collecting can be doorway into other fruitful experiences. At age 94 when she passed, Helen Kovach Gilden left her autograph collection to Kent State Universities Libraries, with the acquisition help of her son, poet-artist Alex Gildzen. I show images from an exhibition catalog (I somehow doubt that Richard Nixon ever knew to appreciate her forgiveness, but who knows?). Just check out that list of people who wrote her!!
Anyway, it’s still early days for my Postcard Exchange Project. But I look forward to more of its generated experiences that I know I otherwise might not have were it not for this simple impetus to share cards. Thanks to all who’ve sent me cards so far, including Alex Gildzen and, through him, Helen Kovach Gildzen.
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