
Although this looks like "art" I consider it "junk mail". I used old beat up envelopes to paint on. It was sent to Europe empty, as an experiment, really, to see how and if it arrived.and I found from pictures of it on the Art Across the World site, that it did , in fact, arrive safely.. albeit and little crumpled and beaten up with postage marks. I felt I created my own international junk mail, sent for the sole purpose of filling up someones mail box with my own advertisement for my art.
There is a worlwide exhibition of Mail Arts that takes place each year in severaal European countries. The associations of calligraphers and scribes in France, Italy, Belgium and the UK, receive entrees from calligraphers around the world, and display them on line as well as local live exhibitions in galleries in each country. I entered three this year, simply by mailing the addressed envelopes to each association in each country. It was fun to find mine on the combined site, and see how they arrived. Some artists envelopes arrived better than others.. but all wonderful to see.
Their mission statement: "Mail-Art Across the World" consists of a free project of displaying beautifully written international mail art.
It is meant for calligraphists without origin limitations. Envelopes will be displayed with an information card in countries of organizers and every people who accept to welcome it.. In the middle of the way between writing and painting, Calligraphy is a total art, which is more and more used each day around us and because of the richness of our communication technology. Mail-art gives a new life to usual epistolary communications by turning it into art and by the travel of artistic creations.
Check out the site for yourself at: Mail-Art Across the World.
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