IF WE STAND VERY STILL, NO ONE WILL NOTICE
Gracia Haby (collage on postcard)
&
Louise Jennison (watercolour and pencil on Fabriano 640gsm traditional white paper)

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mailbox 1 (left to right, top to bottom) [lj]
A Crab-eater Seal and two Australian Fur Seals test the waters.

mailbox 2 [lj]
Black Bear with money to buy back her habitat.
Two Polar Bears with lights.
A Brown Bear, wishing he had more.
A Humpback Whale sings for 22 hours serenading fishermen.

mailbox 3 [lj]
A band of Tasmanian Devils join forces to protect the Long Footed Potoroos.

mailbox 4 [gh]
They are discussing environmental policies.
How did we end up here?
A blue faced female Black-naped Monarch whispers the secrets of the world to me but I am unimpressed.

mailbox 5 [gh]
Where I can be myself.
Red Fox Return.
The Pigeon River Hotel seemed so very far away.
They gave me no chance to reply.

mailbox 6 [gh]
Which way to the Emerald lake?
We thought we knew a great deal, but really we knew nothing.
In Montevideo they could be themselves.

mailbox 7 [lj]
A Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat counts his 70 remaining friends.
A quoka wearing a ‘Don’t Feed Me’ badge.
A Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat takes refuge.

mailbox 8 [gh]
It made for a different vantage point.
The longer I stood there, the less I understood.
She was unsure of her new owl companion.

mailbox 9 [lj]
An aurora of polar bears with floatation devices.

mailbox 10 [lj]
An endangered Hector’s Dolphin jumps to cleaner waters.

mailbox 11 [gh]
All the thieves, they all tended to hide their jewels in the one spot.
It produced what no other refractory in Beirut could.
He traveled for some time without incident.
If we stand very still, no one will notice.

mailbox 12 [lj]
Three motocross riders attempt to cast a shadow of an Eastern Broad-nosed Bat on the earth beneath them.

mailbox 13 [gh]
If only the Northern Hopping Mouse thought to look behind him.
Please, help me untie my eyelashes.
Enough to make a cloak and a hood, and a pair of warm mittens.
I never knew I’d miss you.

mailbox 14 [gh]
All was not as it ought.
The things we left behind.
We once watched the grassy plains, now we watch nothing.
He spoke through his nose.

mailbox 15 [lj]
Four wrens with strings attached.

mailbox 16 [gh]
I can't see what you see.
It was not the objects that bewitched him, it was the order in which they were arranged.
From here we can see the Adriatic sea.

mailbox 17 [lj]
Two wrens watch the wind change.
Two Tasmanian Tigers imagine they still exist.

mailbox 18 [gh]
Everything that reminds me of you makes me unbelievably sad.
A small discovery, Guanajuato, Mexico.
I still don’t trust them.
The country we invented turned out to be the Canadian Rockies.


Gracia Haby
They are discussing environmental policies.
2007
postcard collage