Have you found the site PostSecret yet? The premise of the site is quite interesting, and the outcome is remarkable. PostSecret describes itself as “an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard”. The resulting collection is both moving and humorous, and it includes messages that are by turns filled with anguish and wisdom, hilarity and pathos.
Scrolling through the site, there is a certain feeling of looking through someone else’s diary, but this somehow doesn’t leave one feeling dirty, perhaps because it is clear how empowering such an experience was for the authors. The postcards themselves are very often quite creative and artistic in and of themselves.
There are several books compiled from submissions not seen on the site, and there are even traveling exhibitions seen in museums and galleries around the country. Readers of the site are also able to comment on individual entries, and there is a community chat forum that the compiler visits.
Visiting the site left me considering what secret I would share, and what that secret would say about who I am.
