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Mail Art News #89: Zorica Obradović

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    Zorica Obradović , from Kragujevac, Serbia What is mail art? What is mail art not? Not much I can do about it either way. I contacted two people online to see if they had anything to say. One did and one did not. Surprisingly,  Zorica Obradović  had plenty to say without much effort on my part, which is all I'm asking for. You talk, I blog. Thomas Brown (TB): Do you have anything you would like to say to the readers of Mail Art News?  Zorica Obradović (ZO):   [Translated from Serbian by Gmail]: These are not the only threads that connect us ~  Thanks for asking. Thanks for your inquisitive nature. I come from a small country, and the chances that you have even heard of it are slim to none unless you walk within its borders. I am also an inhabitant of the planet Earth, which carries a similar probability of being known to you if you are not currently at that location. Therefore, that is not a strong enough argument to spin a web of complexes around...
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Mail Art News #88: Nov 2025 - July 3, 2026

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T. Brown, color pencils and rubber stamp on envelope, on outgoing, Nov 2025 Looook, it's been a year, so I'm not going to stress myself with doing a superb art history nerd job at this blog post, AND I may not be blogging again any time soon. So here it is, enjoy. Take a break from deciphering your bizarre dreams and have a look at my corner of the mail art universe. Have you ever wondered: "What does discoflux mean?"  I have. So I looked it up.  From Google: "In the satirical Erisian (or Discordian) religion, Discoflux is a religious holiday celebrated on the 50th day of the season of Discord (which corresponds to May 3rd on the Gregorian calendar). It is one of the five seasonal flux holidays mentioned in the Principia Discordia ." You are invited! (See below.) T. Brown, outgoing, July 2026 Mail Art Call from Discoflux : Clouds T. Brown, outgoing, July 2026 Discoflux has also sent photos of two different mail art exhibits over the past year, but I negle...
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Mail Art News #87: July 4, 2025

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postal prank from Chris Stadler, with rubber stampings by T. Brown, using the stamps sent by A. Warner Not all mail art is delivered by the postal service, though most is. Delivery by private citizens is the rarer method. For example, the package of old New In Chess magazines from one "Magnus Carlsen" showed up in the hallway of my apartment building yesterday. Further research determined the sender to be one Christopher Stadler, an associate of Mail Art News - Media Specialist, Ariel Greenwood. And then there's the set of rubber stamped post cards from rubber stamp collector, Amy Warner, which made their way to me via Tom Warner, another associate of A. Greenwood from the Pratt Library. If it's art (pranking is an artform) and it came to the Mail Art News headquarters in an envelope, it's mail art. As a reminder, we're in the process of relocating our headquarters from Baltimore to Aberdeen, Maryland.  And so, as in an attempt to shake this tabasco sauce add...
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