Post Secret

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

For my art, I chose something a little different.  The blog posted above is a blog of confessions.  People send postcards to postsecret, with something they wish to share, without revealing their identity.  Postsecret has also made books from from the content of the blogs, and there are postsecret exhibitions in various museums.   The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York and Hillier Art Space  in Washington DC are currently hosting PostSecret art exhibitions.

These pieces of art capture the essence of the confessional movement, through personal art.   These postcards reveal insight into the lives of each artist.   Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are responsible for countless poems where they shared intimate details about their personal lives, much like the postcards that are posted on the site.  Because the site is anonymous, the poets mask their identities much like the earlier confessional poets hid behind masks.  The nature of these poems have a vast range of emotions.  For the artists to reveal their innermost feelings, emotions and secrets,  is tremendously therapeutic.  

The pictures under the label post secret are examples of postcards found on postsecret.  The picture concerning a father-child relationship is very similar to the subject of some of Plath's and Sexton's poems.  These two poets were inspired by their homelives and wrote of disconcerting relationships with their fathers.  For example Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy."