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Mail-Art and Environment. Do Mail-Artists think Green? In which way? Is it only by recycling, or are there other possibilities and things to consider.

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Comment by Penelope Timm on September 16, 2024 at 5:34pm: Gel prints someone was tossing out. A lot of mail artists make their own envelopes from old calendars, magazine covers. Upcycling fosters creativity!

Comment by Penelope Timm on September 16, 2024 at 5:30pm: Recently Lisa Cox invited me to an Upcycle Day. It started me to thinking how to re-use items that I would throw away or recycle.

I get a lot of solicitations for donations. I decided to re-use the many envelopes by turning them inside out. I will never run out of #10 sized envelopes!

Comment by Rebekka Schmidt on August 12, 2023 at 5:15pm: thank you Richard!!

Comment by Susan Weisberg on December 20, 2021 at 6:47pm: Beautiful!

Comment by Bruno Cassaglia on December 20, 2021 at 4:25pm

Comment by Sil on June 5, 2021 at 7:17pm: For me thinking green is just a way of living and taking care of our planet.
I use rainwater, make paper from recycled scraps, garden weeds and plants, ...

Many materials in my work are found leftovers.

Comment by Sabrina S on June 3, 2021 at 12:22pm: It is the same for me, Susan. I think a lot about environmental issues and my daily life reflects that in the way how I eat, what I buy, what I do, etc. In my opinion humans take too much space for themselves on this planet (when it comes to the amount of resources they use) and are way too greedy, not respecting the rights of other species to survive.

I often thought about how mail art could be a vessel for these thoughts and concerns… but like you said, there is the risk of creating depressing, maybe even offending mail art, especially as everybody gets triggered by different things.

Comment by Bruno Cassaglia on June 2, 2021 at 8:47pm: wabi-sabi art

Comment by Bruno Cassaglia on June 2, 2021 at 8:46pm: W IUOMA!

Comment by Susan Weisberg on June 2, 2021 at 7:02pm: I think about green/environmental issues all the time. Beyond recycling there's overall conservation, energy use, land use, and most of all for me endangered species. It's hard to keep one's spirits up. Can we make mail art on these issues that is encouraging and not totally depressing?

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