In honor of Labor Day 2022, the Postcrossing artists and craftspeople of every country were invited to display cards made on the subject of Labor – labor to make the world a better place, labor to put food on the table, labor to create a child, and so on, and the entire Postcrossing community was invited to vote on the winners.
And so, here they are!
Based on the number of likes:
First Place goes to @wurzelsofie. The sheer effervescence of the work makes us smile.
I will start us off. See by my modest talents that you do not need to have excellent artistic skills to enter. But we welcome those with excellent artistic skills as well!
My entry is called Mothers - creating the future one cell at a time
It celebrates the labor of love in creating a child, which is another way of creating a future.
I wish I had seen this sooner when I actually had time to make something. Sadly I’m just too busy today. However, looking through all the handmade cards I’ve created in the past I found this one that might fit the theme of labor.
Or perhaps this one might qualify too. The image shows the “Smiley Barn” which used to be located in Nampa, Idaho until I was torn town about 25 years ago.
What kind of gallery are you looking for? If you want to have it in the forum, you can easily edit the gallery into the first post of this topic - or if you’d prefer it to be in the second one, there also is a possibility to do so. Topics usually aren’t deleted, unless they are duplicate ones - so the gallery will stay permanently.
What a great idea to make a themed oriented exhibition!
Like some others I didn’t manage to create new cards, but have to mine a bit in previous made cards.
I thought about the theme and wondered why we only consider human labor work?
There are many animals living for their work - and some gifting us with the fruits of their work.
But do we really honor them for their giving?
Let’a take the well-known example of bees, whose simple act of living who they are is important for us to harvest fruits, like I do currently in neighborhood, where loads of delicious apples, nuts and berries are to be found. All of them thanks to nature and especially bees.
So that’s why this is my entry - a picture from my garden:
I looked through the photos of my handmade cards and found the following which might qualify.
A guy who could be a sailor.
The old lady who must have worked a lot in her life.
And Florence Nightingale, the ”lady with the lamp“.
That’s as much for the idea as anything, I believe. Anyways I recused myself from the honors group in the very beginning, and just really enjoyed everyone’s participation.
