POSTCARD N.200 - SPAIN

 Postcard sent on the 10th November; received in November 2025.

Postcard image: Se Busca Persona Capacitada para Manter Conexiones

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200! I couldn't have hit a round number in my postcard letterbox with a more interesting addition.

Art is uplifting in  nature, even when it makes you wonder... or better yet, for it makes you wonder, think, cogitate, and, most of all, question.

and nowhere is this more apparent as when we confront the world in its bare minimum,  That's why black and white photography has been such a perennial and irrevocable foundation of fine art.

Words, on the other hand, like little construction blocks, also have the inherent power of generating buildings of  meaning. The good builders among us, users of words, know where to fit them best, where to lay them upon the mortar of ingenuity, where to force them into impossible spaces, knowing that applied this or that way, they often bloom into disparate even conflicting constructions... words, as such, are the pigment in the watercolour of semantics... but, then again, there's always the possibility of using but Payne's grey over the white of the cotton sheet!

Moltes gràcies, Eva. I really liked this one!

Polysemy at its best, both in words and in image. "Seeking qualified individual to maintain connections" reads the legend. Pity the outrageous quality of the scan... sorry!

"Stamp Day"  reads the legend on the 1,85 stamp issued on 11APR2003, although I could not find evidence of this being an annually celebrated event (there were also, at least,  Stamp day stamps issued in 2001 and 2002, albeit in March...).

Further to the legend, the stamps carries the coat of arms of the Academia Hispánica de Filatelia, (Hispanic Philately Academy) which in 2006 would be renamed the Real Academia Hispánica de Filatelia (Royal Hispanic Philately Academy).

The mechanical postmark hails from the city of  Valencia, the Capital of the Autonomous Community of the same name, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula.