Postcards from Google Earth is a collection of images found inside Google Earth: bridges that melt into the river below, highways that drape over hillsides like fabric, terrain that folds in on itself.

These are not glitches in the sense of errors. They are the direct result of how the system works. Google Earth stretches a single continuous photographic surface over a 3D model of the terrain. The model knows about mountains and valleys. It does not know about bridges, overpasses, or anything else that stands away from the ground, so the photograph of a bridge gets pulled down onto the landscape underneath it.

The images are not manipulated. They are screenshots. What they record is an automated system doing exactly what it was designed to do and producing pictures nobody intended.

I collect them, print them, and put them on postcard racks, which is the format that has always been used to sell a place back to the people standing in it.