Political Trading Card Prints

The politicians keep changing. Every year there are new faces, old faces, people arriving, people leaving, people promising things.

I want to produce a complete hand-printed card set of the American government each year. Congress. The Senate. The Supreme Court. The President.

• The fronts would borrow the language of 1950s baseball cards.

• The backs would contain statistics, records, votes, appointments, years served, committees, and other measures of political life.

The cards would be printed by hand in a small studio. The quality would be of the highest standard.

This is not a project for one person. It requires printers, paper, space, and time.

I am looking for a patron or institutional partner willing to help establish the studio and see the project through.

The government changes every year. The cards would too.

— Cliff Elgin