Printed cards We have been producing printed cards for some time now. Every card is 135x135mm, with black text on one side with the old fashioned termographic effect applied. The edition sizes range from 150 to 2000. Sometimes the editions are mailed solely to our own small mailing list, and in other circumstances they are mailed to a collaborating gallery's entire mailing list. In the past they have been mailed to the mailing lists of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, Museum of Garden History, London, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver and Tate Britain, London, amongst others. In each case they are mailed in a plain white envelope 140x140mm, with no additional information enclosed. Since 2001 when they first took on Garden 114 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, cards were posted out to inform recipients of details observed in their leisure garden. Some described the success and failure of various plants and vegetables that grow there; others recorded activities to cultivate the land and others simply but evocatively consisted of lists documenting birds seen, colours emerging. Into open public space, the texts inserted a moment of private observation, sometimes acting like a pause, prompting a quiet personal reflection or an associative memory. The messages acted as a kind of reportage, a strange journalism evoking similarity and difference. A selection of the cards can be seen by clicking on the links below: African Grey Parrot..., 2006 Heather Morison is deadfully afraid..., 2005 Forest fungi spotted by Heather & Ivan Morison..., 2004 Heather Morison is haunted by the horrific death of her two beautiful Java Sparrows..., 2003 Chinese citizen Zhou Peikun and his wife have been breeding pigs for many years..., 2003 Mr & Mrs Ivan Morison do not understand it..., 2003 Plants in Marina Pimenoff's garden, spring 2003 Peder Østlund and Ivor Ballangrud are excited..., 2003 Printed cards from Garden 114, 2001-ongoing
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