"Alternate Worlds Series: Postcard from the Islas Malvinas"

This is a work from the artist's "Alternate World Series", a project on the idea of “alternate worlds” or “parallel worlds”… This is a theme that has been explored in science fiction literature (e.g., The Man in the High Castle), and in television and film, but less so in art and design. In this project, we have images of objects from alternate worlds, carefully collected and curated. The concept, of course, is to explore the vagaries of history: how decisions and accidents shape our path through time. This particular piece is a postcard postmarked "14 Nov. 1982", sent from Las Islas Malvinas, also known in our world as the Falkland Islands. In Alt-World 4771-8s, the Argentine invasion of the islands succeeded, and the British formally ceded the territory to government of Argentina on the 15th of June, 1982. On the back of the postcard is a text written — perhaps by a tourist — in Italian, and the addressee is also Italian.