Headguy

Male

Burlington, NC

United States

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Mail-Artist since:

2003

My Website (without http://):

http://www.theheadproject.com

Why I am involved in Mail-Art:

“If you give ten kids a camera and ask them to take a picture of the same subject, you’ll get ten wildly different photos. If you do the same with adults, you’ll get ten of the same thing.” –middle school photography teacher, 1991

Sixteen years ago, in 2002, inspired by projects like the 1000journals project (1,000 blank journals are sent out into the world for strangers to fill), I had an idea. I would send a mannequin head, which I had recently rescued from a thrift store, around the world, from person to person, and give each participant two weeks to do something creative with it. What they did was entirely up to them as long as they documented it with photos and/or video. At the end of two weeks, the head would be mailed to the next person on the list. It would be an ongoing, worldwide, collaborative art experiment; a traveling head project.

Fifteen years later, I'm relaunching the project, this time with GPS-enabled mannequin heads.

My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)

1745 N NC HWY 49, BURLINGTON, NC 27217
theheadproject@gmail.com

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