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post_card_stories ([personal profile] post_card_stories) wrote2024-09-20 02:33 pm

Peter Vilhelm Ilsted - Woman reading by candlelight (1908) <--- Fairbanks, Alaska, USA





Back side of the card:

Quite unusually for a typical Postcrossing transaction, I received not one, but three cards, all in a single envelope, and all blank. There was a short letter included, explaining the choices—they all matched the interests outlined on my profile: mirrors in art, mountains, and fungi.

The second card shows Denali, also known as Mount McKinley, in Alaska, USA.



The third cards shows Bracket fungus {Trametes, possibly T. hirsuta}:



The envelop the cards were sent in:



I've just recently wrote an extensive post in my blog about  Art Mirrors about the artworks with mirrors by Carl Holsøe or Vilhelm Hammershøi;  Peter Ilsted belonged to the same art circle of Danish painters. Read it here: øi-øe, or Storyless Mirrors