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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.16.2007
What's yours? Come on, everyone has one. It's time to spill the beans.
Not comfortable blabbing to just anyone? Well, how about anonymously revealing your secret to everyone?
PostSecret is an online outlet that allows people to anonymously and artistically confess their deepest secret for the entire world to see. Confessions are often sad, sentimental, shocking or scandalous.
"It amazes me that people can be so brutally honest and succinct in such a small space," said Roula Seikaly, the University of Arizona Union Gallery curator and a PostSecret fan. "It astounds me. These cards are absolutely amazing."
Blogger Frank Warren started the community art project in November 2004 when he invited strangers to send him illustrated postcards revealing a secret. The only requirements: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been shared with any other person.
Three years and 100,000 cards later, PostSecret has become an international phenomenon.
Warren has authored several books based on the artful confessions, appeared on national television and radio shows, and created traveling art shows. One such exhibit is on display at the University of Arizona's Union Gallery through Dec. 14.
Warren, who will speak on campus Nov. 27, provided 150 original postcards for the show, but the exhibit is constantly growing. Anyone is welcome to contribute a secret via drop boxes in eight campus locations.
"We're going to keep the boxes open on campus throughout the duration of the exhibit," said Seikaly, who curated the show. "It makes a lot of sense because it adds the voices of the people in the city to the overall dialogue that is PostSecret. It's a great way to get people involved. It's an inclusive project and that's one of the reasons I think PostSecret works as well as it does. It's such a democratic art experience."
Share your secret
To have your secret exhibited in the gallery show, place a postcard in a box at one of the following campus locations:
• Student Union Memorial Center, main floor.
• Center for Student Involvement & Leadership.
• School of Art.
• Campus Health, Counseling and Psychological Services office.
• Park Student Union.
• Student Recreation Center.
• ASUA (Associated Students of the University of Arizona) office.
• Off-Campus Housing office in the Student Union.
The PostSecret phenomenon
• Frank Warren has created several books based on the artful confessions sent to him — "PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives," "My Secret," "The Secret Lives of Men and Women" and "A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book," which was released last month.
• As payment for using PostSecret images in their "Dirty Little Secret" music video, Warren asked The All-American Rejects to donate $2,000 to 1-800-SUICIDE, a national suicide prevention hotline where Warren is a volunteer.
• Last year Warren received a special award from the National Mental Health Association for how PostSecret has "moved the cause of mental health forward."
● Contact reporter Sarah Mauet at 573-4124 or at smauet@azstarnet.com.
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