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Greetings From New Orleans
by Jill Robinson
Sat, January 21, 2006, 3:00 am PST

Have you ever found a postcard on the street? One that was clearly meant to be mailed, but just fell out of someone's bag on the way to the mailbox? Did you read it? Did you mail it? That's just what Justin Lundgren wants to know in this "experiment in found art." When he evacuated his flooded house in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he saved some photos of Mardi Gras and New Orleans that he'd intended to display in a gallery. Instead, he turned them into postcards, addressed them to a friend in Ohio, and wrote different messages from fake people who hold questionable views or recount outrageous experiences. He then stamped them and "lost" them throughout the city. Of the 99 postcards, 47 of them found their way back East. Scroll your way through the mailbag and browse the recovered cards. One even has an additional, "Found on sidewalk!" scrawled in rescuer handwriting.

Filed under: New Orleans, Lost and Found

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