POSTCARDS FROM... IF WE STAND VERY STILL, NO ONE WILL NOTICE
A small zine by Gracia Haby

Edition of 60
March, 2007

A 14 X 9cm, B&W laser copy, 24 page printed zine with a single gold paper fastener tie and a cardboard back.

Featuring many of the postcards seen behind the little glass doors at Mailbox 141, as part of the exhibition, If we stand very still, no one will notice, with Louise Jennison.

Collage on postcard, 2007. Titles of works as they appear.
Which way to the Emerald lake? (cover)
If we stand very still, no one will notice.
Are we there yet?
They are discussing environmental policies.
The Pigeon River Hotel seemed so very far away.
They gave me no chance to reply.
From here we can see the Adriatic sea.
Where I can be myself.
In Montevideo they could be themselves.
It produced what no other refractory in Beirut could.
It was not the objects that bewitched him, it was the order in which they were arranged.
We once watched the grassy plains, now we watch nothing.
He traveled for some time without incident.
Everything that reminds me of you makes me unbelievably sad.
For Ethel.
The things we left behind.
The country we invented turned out to be the Canadian Rockies.
How did we end up here?
We thought we knew a great deal, but really we knew nothing.
The country we invented turned out to be just right.
The longer I stood there, the less I understood.
It made for a different vantage point.
If only the Northern Hopping Mouse thought to look behind him.


Gracia Haby
It produced what no other refractory in Beirut could.
We thought we knew a great deal, but really we knew nothing.
He traveled for some time without incident.
2007
postcard collage