MAIL ART NEWS

artist:  Domenico Ferrara Foria The following interview with Ruud Janssen took place by email in Oct / Nov 2023, with minor edits for clarity and formatting. Works of art are placed throughout, sometimes randomly, sometimes not-so-randomly. Enjoy. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TB (Thomas Brown): How did the world look or feel just prior to your discovery of mail art?  And then after you discovered mail art?  Please include songs for the soundtrack.  I will attempt to find these songs on YouTube for inclusion into the blog post.  Song for opening scene:  Song for when you got into mail art: RJ (Ruud Janssen):  Well, a movie about Ruud Janssen should have an opening scene with my birth in a house in Tilburg, Netherlands. As third child of my parents, I was the first to be born at home, in the middle in the night on July 29th in 1959. My grandfather built that house as I later learned, and I lived there the first 25 years of my life. A ...

wuh-pish, wuh-pish , some bizarre North Carolinian inner hellscape collage from Jon Foster , 2023 It's 2024 here on Earth according to the common calendar used by the majority of humans on Earth. Does anybody really know what time it is? It could in fact really be the year 13.7 billion or even 26.7 billion depending on who you ask at NASA about the age of the universe. While that's being worked out in detail, I'm going with the year 2024. Enter the Dragon .  I'm happy to report that I have a perforating machine now, a birthday present from Mail Art News media specialist, Ariel Greenwood . Get your own here . It works well enough for my purposes, but there's no precise way to line up exactly where the holes will be punched. You just have to feel it out with your eyes each time. The AI generated intergalactic postage stamps look pretty good. You may have noticed my absence for several weeks. That's because November and December were extra busy this year at my day ...