To us, every greeting card is an opportunity to create a small work of art and share it with a wider audience.
We hope to create greeting cards and note cards that exhibit elegance, wit, and surprise. Our cards are printed on high-quality papers, and our photographic images are inspired by the many powerful aspects of nature, the city street, beauty in unexpected places, and the power of meditation.
In addition to 5x7 greeting cards and 4x5 note cards, we offer limited and open edition prints and posters.
Owner and operator Barbara Lewin has spent many years as a professional jazz singer. Her appreciation of music and performance has lived alongside her other love, gardening, and she turned to digital photography as a way to document what was happening in the garden. What began as a photo journal turned into a serious interest in photography and the use of digital photography as a way to explore a visual form of improvisation.
Mary Sargent has a background in painting, but switched to photography in 1996, working with film until 2006, when she switched to digital photography. The ten-year period of working with film produced two major series, Kitchen Still Lifes and Public Bathrooms; these photographs were printed by the artist. This was a slow, meditative process. The switch to digital photography allowed her to work in a faster and more immediate way and this resulted in the Manhattan Street Project, a project to walk every street in Manhattan, taking photographs and posting them to her photoblog at newyorkphotoblog.blogspot.com.
Common to these three series is an appreciation of the beauty and the interest inherent in the ordinary.