MAIL ART NEWS

  incoming from Mark Johnson, a reproduction from The Science Fair Story , 1979 ✉         🖼          🖊                 📰     We may indeed, some day, have some kind of satellite "mail" and maybe some kind of electronic mail that travels over a maze of wires, but until that day comes, I'm sticking with good old-fashioned paper mail. Of course, there's also a mail network that exists within each life form, with messages traveling in different directions, at various speeds in the mind / body. Indeed, part of communicating is to get a better picture of the trajectories of human energies, for the benefit of one or more of the parties involved.  In April 2023, I was asking on Faceboo k " How many different eyes do you need to see one person?" By that, I was wondering how to see all the parts of a person, all of the facets. The next step in the development of that idea is to as...

  collage by Jason Motsch, seen on Facebook 5-5-2023 Don't stop 'til you get enough...mail art and mail art news, that is. Today, on the final day of my three-day weekend, I have found many things to show you. You can expect increased activity from me on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Now, let's dive in.  I knew this would happen at some point. Eventually, I was going to feel compelled to comment on the potential meanings of a collage. Here is my take on the above collage from Jason Motsch .  I see it as a bird or plane, representing an individual in motion, whose head is kind of a speech bubble. The theme of motivating factors comes to mind.  Within the speech bubble, there is a landscape and door representing some promised or expected environment ahead, though there may be some unknowns (dark door), but even then the destination will only be temporary because there's the door again which could lead to the next destination or is the door to be avoided? Once a p...