PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade
postcard.
PostSecret began originally as an art installation for Artomatic 2004 in Washington, D.C.
The idea of the project is simple: completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they have never before revealed. There is no restriction on what the content of the secret must be, only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams.
Since Frank Warren created the website on January 1, 2005, PostSecret has collected and displayed upwards of 2,500 original pieces of art from people across the United States and some parts of the world (international readers have also been known to send in postcards).
The site, which started as an experimental Blogspot and is updated every Sunday with 20-40 new pieces, has a relatively constant style, giving all 'artists' that participate some guidelines on how their secrets should be represented. The only instructions given are as follows:
You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
Create your own 4-by-6-inch postcards out of any mailable material. But please only put one secret on a card. If you want to share two or more secrets, use multiple postcards. (Please do not e-mail your secret.)
Please put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard.
Tips:
- Be brief - the fewer words used the better.
- Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.
- Be creative - let the postcard be your canvas.
Summary from Wikipedia.
POSTSECRET is here.