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“Wish You Were Here” Archtober Postcard Competition: For Archtober’s 2025 Postcard Competition, in tandem with this year’s festival theme, Shared Spaces, we’re asking New Yorkers to delve deep into the common areas that shape our lives. Submit your vision in the form of a postcard, featuring the phrase “Wish You Were Here.” The expression conjures place, memory, and longing—a space worth sharing. Whether it’s an art museum that feels like home or a waterfront that offers some respite, we want to see the public spaces that you would invite us into.
4x6 handmade paper (pulp), collage with magazine material, digital photographs, Adobe Express
I love the Museum of Chinese in America for all the programming they put on and all the exhibits that educate the public, including new generations of Chinese Americans about their rightful place in the country and NYC.
With birthright citizenship being challenged these days, I think it's especially important to honor the legacy of the ancestors who came before us and fought for all of our rights--in this case, Wong Kim Ark.
This museum has anchored my sense of place and home with its modern and welcoming design, while also subverting trite stereotypes that Chinatown is old, rundown, and dirty. It also fights against nearby gentrification ("Dimes Square") while maintaining its historical roots, and does a phenomenal job bridging the old and the new--preparing visitors to envision a future that honors the past.