mail art #1
Remember mail art? There are artists still engaged with the medium, but in my life the practice has been replaced by blogs and email. Most of my old mail-art friends have quite rightly cut me out of the loop (because I no longer respond in-kind), while they continue to send beautiful, personalised objects to one another via Canada Post. Others are sharing code, posting to lists, posting to blogs, etc. In a recent root through my closet I just unearthed an old box of mail-art postrcards from friends, family, and otherwise-designated loved ones. Below is one of my favourites, sent to me during the Gulf War when I was living in an attic in Upper Gagetown, NB, right next door to the Oromocto army base (meaning that the house we lived in rocked with munitions testing all day long).
top: A side of cut-n-paste postcard depicting US testing of tomahawk missile in California,
middle: excerpt/detail from message on B side, bottom: detail of middle panel from A side.
Sally,
I came to mail art late in life. Like last November. I have been
sending a piece to a friend in Pittsburgh once a week ever since. the idea being to capture a moment in my life on a weekly basis and look at it all once a year has passed.
I call '52 Now What?'
Keep ya posted.
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mail art #1
Remember mail art? There are artists still engaged with the medium, but in my life the practice has been replaced by blogs and email. Most of my old mail-art friends have quite rightly cut me out of the loop (because I no longer respond in-kind), while they continue to send beautiful, personalised objects to one another via Canada Post. Others are sharing code, posting to lists, posting to blogs, etc. In a recent root through my closet I just unearthed an old box of mail-art postrcards from friends, family, and otherwise-designated loved ones. Below is one of my favourites, sent to me during the Gulf War when I was living in an attic in Upper Gagetown, NB, right next door to the Oromocto army base (meaning that the house we lived in rocked with munitions testing all day long).
top: A side of cut-n-paste postcard depicting US testing of tomahawk missile in California,
middle: excerpt/detail from message on B side, bottom: detail of middle panel from A side.
- sally mckay 5-21-2004 10:12 am
Sally,
I came to mail art late in life. Like last November. I have been
sending a piece to a friend in Pittsburgh once a week ever since. the idea being to capture a moment in my life on a weekly basis and look at it all once a year has passed.
I call '52 Now What?'
Keep ya posted.
- Tino (guest) 5-27-2004 11:19 pm