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Postcards From the New York I Dreamed Up

06.10.26 —

Before I lived in New York, I spent years imagining it. I built a version of the city from photographs, movies, Pinterest boards and fragments of other people’s lives—a place I hoped would one day become mine.

Five years after moving from Cairo to New York for my MFA, I began drawing that imagined city again, this time from memory.

Postcards From the New York I Dreamed Up is a 30-day illustration series revisiting the places, people and ordinary moments that made up my life there. Each illustration is designed as a 4×6 postcard, borrowing the visual language of the souvenirs and snapshots we send home from somewhere we’ve been.

But these aren't postcards of the New York tourists are meant to see. They’re the New York I actually lived: the East Village, the L train, neighborhood storefronts, ferry rides, intimate friendships,


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Noran Morsi

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Postcards From the New York I Dreamed Up

06.10.26 —

Before I lived in New York, I spent years imagining it. I built a version of the city from photographs, movies, Pinterest boards and fragments of other people’s lives—a place I hoped would one day become mine.

Five years after moving from Cairo to New York for my MFA, I began drawing that imagined city again, this time from memory.

Postcards From the New York I Dreamed Up is a 30-day illustration series revisiting the places, people and ordinary moments that made up my life there. Each illustration is designed as a 4×6 postcard, borrowing the visual language of the souvenirs and snapshots we send home from somewhere we’ve been.

But these aren’t postcards of the New York tourists are meant to see. They’re the New York I actually lived: the East Village, the L train, neighborhood storefronts, ferry rides, intimate friendships,

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