Sometimes the best secrets are the ones that aren’t best kept.
PostSecret, an ongoing community mail art project, has allowed people to anonymously admit their secrets about everything from sexual misconduct and drug use to heartbreak and embarrassing personal habits. Creator Frank Warren began the project by leaving blank postcards in public places, with instructions for people to send them back with a secret that no one knew.
Since its creation in January of 2004, the project has resulted in five published books, a website, museum exhibits and a slew of college appearances by Warren. His next stop will be at John R. Emens Auditorium at 7 p.m., where Warren will share some of his own secrets about the art project that turned into a full-time job. Tickets are free and open to the public at the Emens box office.
More than 500,000 secrets have been submitted since the project’s beginning. Warren claims that he may have gained such a following because PostSecret is healing for those that send secrets in and inspirational for those who read them.
