The Krane, a local visual and dramatic arts organization, plans to spotlight all of South Florida's submissions on its Web site in coming months. Slot one into the box or send one to Warren, who will gather a selection from the region to feature on his site. A drop-box has been ensconced at the exhibit venue, a real-estate sales center that displays art, and a host of businesses and restaurants are handing out blank cards. The show offers another plus: the chance to unleash a few secrets of our own. Presented in part by the Art Center/South Florida, the exhibit is culled from all of the missives Warren has received, with a portion of book sales and proceeds funneling to CHARLEE Homes for Children, a nonprofit devoted to children in the foster-care system. On Saturday, "PostSecret" arrived in Miami's Design District in conjunction with Warren's latest book, The Secret Lives of Men and Women, the third published since the project's inception. And not everyone can do that verbally."ĭespite the onslaught, Warren still reads all of the mail himself and presents the project at a host of universities and museums across the country, including the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania. "But communication is something we need to do with our own soul and our unconscious to be authentic. " really uses another method of communication, which is not always a safe thing in our society," explains Stephanie Owen Moreno, a licensed art therapist in Pembroke Pines. A dove scrawled over in black ink expresses one person's crisis of faith faces and eyes are blotted with paint and marker to transmit fear or worry.
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While some of the cards employ words to convey their intent, others rely greatly on visuals. The project has morphed into a subculture, populated by what appears to be confessors of all ages and creeds, a virtual nation seeking to lighten their psyches. In 2005 he launched, an award-winning blog that features a fresh sampling of secrets each Sunday. To date Warren has received about 100,000 cards, averaging 200 a day. Then when the relationship grows closer, this proves more difficult." Ritvo adds that the anonymity of "PostSecret" allows its participants to leapfrog over these obstacles, and while the result is not equivalent to long-term counseling, "PostSecret" can offer an immediate sense of freedom. Often when people come into therapy, they are confessing to a stranger.
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"There is something very valuable about sharing a secret, especially if there's some shame attached to it. "People are social animals, and this is an easy way to unburdening themselves of these secrets, to share them and not be alone in the process," notes Eva Ritvo, a vice-chair at the University of Miami's department of psychiatry and behavioral science. Their words were startling, recognizable, filled with what was too joyful or ruthless to keep to oneself. The cards were handmade, pieced together with receipts and wedding invitations, cardboard and vintage photos, magazine clippings, watercolors, crayons. The postcards continued to stuff his mailbox - and these were not the ones he had given out, but art-laden originals.