Ace proscrastinator that I am, planning to mail out the agreed exchange postcards while still in Australia, I naturally left it until the last couple of days I was there before beginning the work and thus needing a bit of fancy footwork and working into the night before we left to fully achieve my goal. I wanted to make sure the cards got to those promised them. In Uruguay everything is inspected coming and going, and nice stamps or interesting contents raise the risk of something not making it through the cordon.

The cards grew out of an initial suggestion by the curator of the exhibition, Dijanne Cevaal, that one from each exhibitor would be a nice thankyou gesture to fellow exhibitor, Jenny Bowker, a diplomatic wife in Egypt whose connections and enthusiastic representations on our behalf has opened doors enabling the collection to be seen in several Middle Eeastern countries, with rave reviews according to all reports, including their individual blogs, www.oridigidij.blogspot.com (Dijanne) and www.jennybowker.blogger.com .