Postcard Club No. 1: Meeting in Nature

From left to right by row:
Matt: Bat
Kate: Bird
Fahad: River
Guillaume: Stream
Natalia: Frog
Alex: Person
Hannah: Bee
Lewis: Toad
Mike: Insect
James: Tree
Oliver: Hedgehog
Anna: Flower

What started as an group exercise to enable us communicate away from the screen has bought us full to circle: welcome to our weekly Postcard Club.

During the first week of remote working, we sent each member of the Tonkin Liu team a watercolour postcard book, to get everyone painting and writing to each other - and to connect us away from the screen during this period of social distancing. We set a weekly brief to create within, the first one was a ‘Nature/Woodland’ theme. Each team member chose a different element of the woodland to draw from the perspective of; a bee, a tree or a bat.

During a team discussion about the postcard project, we discovered the fun of the Zoom ‘Green Screen’ feature, and suddenly found we were transported into our own self-created virtual woodland. Experiencing the woodland from different scales, at different heights and places. And so, we spent the afternoon 'in nature' together, and collectively we were the woodland.

The Tonkin Liu Virtual Woodland

Looking from one flower to another

The woodland from within the stream

The woodland from above, a birds eye view

The woodland from an insect’s perspective