Caroline Golden

Caroline Golden (New York, USA)

Intervention, 2018

collage, vintage greeting cards, museum board

24.5 x 32 x 1.5 inches

Following the arc of one family through a collection of greeting cards found in a thrift shop, I was struck by how little had been personally communicated from the senders to the recipients. Intervention was created using the characters cut from these cards. This is not a chance encounter. Despite the need to achieve a purposeful connection to arrive at a resolution, we feel palpable frustration as there seems to be no real interpersonal interaction. Intervention can be viewed as a metaphor for the world stage today – faced with the need to fix so much, how can we connect and intervene amid the chaos to save each other from ourselves?