Close Looks
A comic and print series inspired by the Sunny Side Up postcard project
Mixed Media Illustration & Print, 2025
The comic imagines the thoughts of a man who finds one of the cards. His response: “Being unmarried. Not having kids. Saying ‘we’ instead of ‘I’ when talking about the weekend.” — Told in parallel layers, the narrative follows him imagining a family weekend while sitting on the Tube with the card, before eventually sending it back. A small smile appears — what I hope the intervention makes possible: quiet relief through the simple act of letting something out. I experimented with different printing methods and realised the effect works best in Riso, due to its distinctive colour tone.
The layered prints build on my earlier Tube photography. I overlaid handwritten answers — what someone feels judged for and how they try to hide it — using anaglyph techniques. Without 3D foil or glasses, the text becomes difficult to read, mirroring emotional distance and how easily we overlook what others carry beneath the surface.





Prints overlaying handwritten responses from selected postcards












Reading between the lines, upside down, to understand





