LOST MAIL ART

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Comment by Keith S. Chambers on June 18, 2014 at 8:22pm

Amy, I have sent a few pieces to Kim Jung Youn, in South Korea, although she never responds via this website, I have received pieces from her in return, so I know they are getting to their destination.

However, a large percentage of pieces I have sent out go without response and therefore, yes, may be lost in the mail or just be sitting somewhere in a dusty corner of some unresponsive recipient's spare room. No matter, mail art is transient, ephemera, leaves on the wind. Once I drop a piece in the mailbox, I have no expectations of its voice harkening back to me.

But then, after a few attempts to such recipients, eventually those address might be culled from the mail-out list . . . give it a year or so.

Comment by Amy Irwen on June 18, 2014 at 7:44pm

sent 7.9.12

sent 9.25.13

and possibly this piece...sent 05.05.14...no word of receipt....

Comment by Amy Irwen on June 18, 2014 at 7:37pm

I can not seem to get a piece to Kim Jung Youn - Korea....I have sent 3 different pieces and none have gotten thru....will post those in a few minutes..

Comment by Amy Irwen on June 18, 2014 at 7:34pm

Beautiful work Katerina!

Comment by KOZY on June 18, 2014 at 7:30pm

My first piece of mail art is lost in the mail maybe for ever.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 18, 2014 at 3:05pm

To Argentina!

Two more were sent by FedEx, cost a fortune to arrive on time

for the "Worldwide Harbours" exhibit, and did :-)

Smooth sailing!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 18, 2014 at 3:02pm

Well, I sent two lovely "Habours" to Argentine...in an envelope even,

and they never arrived...lost-in-the-mail? Or maybe someone liked them and they are displayed and admired on some wall some where in the world?

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 18, 2014 at 2:59pm

Maybe the glitter Hat needed a French envelope?

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on June 18, 2014 at 2:05pm

Let me be the first in the long lost art series.

Crushed Glitter top hat. Sent from Paris to Diana Keys (USA) on 3 Jan 2014

This was some Paris Road Kill I found.  Likely leftovers of a New Years street party.

Maybe glitter doesn't mail very well?  Or some postal worker needed a glitter top hat for next year's New Year's party?

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