Monthly Postcards
Format: Digital postcards
Dates: Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
Venues: Online
Language: English
Project website: withforestsinourmouths.com/postcards
Dates: Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
Venues: Online
Language: English
Project website: withforestsinourmouths.com/postcards
Text, design: ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS
Additional photography: Óscar González, Elliott Cennetoglu
Archive postcard scans: Wikicommons (open source)
Additional photography: Óscar González, Elliott Cennetoglu
Archive postcard scans: Wikicommons (open source)
Who are the postcards for?
It is May in the second year and we are sitting on the blanket-covered sofa with the late afternoon sun streaming in across our faces and the video screen. We stop for a moment, thinking before we answer.
They are for the audience.
They’re for my mum.
They’re for my good friend who lives in the north of England, and who delights in reading them each month.
Perhaps they are also for ourselves. There so that we can trace these two years, and how we and the landscape transforms. And how we and the landscape stay the same.
It is May in the second year and we are sitting on the blanket-covered sofa with the late afternoon sun streaming in across our faces and the video screen. We stop for a moment, thinking before we answer.
They are for the audience.
They’re for my mum.
They’re for my good friend who lives in the north of England, and who delights in reading them each month.
Perhaps they are also for ourselves. There so that we can trace these two years, and how we and the landscape transforms. And how we and the landscape stay the same.
On the last day of every month in 2024 and 2025 we send out a digital postcard — here on this website, and the dedicated project website, and on social media. Each month contains an image from the preceding days and reflections on the things we have seen and felt.
The above images include photography by ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, Óscar González and Elliott Cennetoglu.
With Forests in Our Mouths is a ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS production, supported in 2024 and 2025 by the Kone Foundation, and part of the Metsän puolella community of arts and research projects. Also kindly supported by Titanik, Silence Residency, TUO TUO Residency, Kaivos Festivaali, Mustarinda, Theater neben dem Turm, Ballhaus Ost, Finnland Institut, Lou gallery, Esiintymä Festival, Loisti gallery, XS – Festival for New Dance and Performance.