A collage from the early 80's when I was finding me feet in the newly discovered mail art network. Making nonsense from other peoples junk always seemed preferable to painting landscapes that took ages to make and hardly ever sold. Collages on the other hand were very quick to make by comparison and I had the added advantage of photo-copying them to spread to a wider audience via the postal network that had been built up since the 60's.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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Lots more mail art over at the A.1.Mail Archive that can be found on bottom of blog links to the left hand side.
I think it's great that you kept the early stuff. During a move, I disposed of all my mail art from the late 80s. I regret it now.
And I agree about painting. Collage works for me because I like quick results and experimentation. Plus you can do it anywhere and with anything.
It's nice to give these old collages an "airing" now we are in the age of the blog, and show them to people who didn't see them the first time round. I remember your mail art show in the record shop window- was that the one Leslie?
We are surrounded by water but if we have a dry Summer they start having hose-pipe bans and talk of importing water from europe and other crazy stuff! Now its the power that's running out and so we must import electricity and gas from Norway and Sweden!
That's the government for you!
Am impressed that everyone has
been doing mail-art or collages
for so long...no wonder your work
is so professional looking! And
all a treat to see.
Hard to imagine California suffering from a wet winter! Long range forecast here says we're in for a very cold winter and maybe a white Christmas. Archie is dusting off his sledge already!
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