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Mail-Artist since:: 1957-1977 (didn't know it was mail art); 2009 (now I know)

My Website (without http://):: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fi_webster/

Why I am involved in Mail-Art:: Like all of us, I suspect, I first did mail art as a child--flowers on cards for grandma, secret codes on letters to girlfriends. Unwittingly, too, I made primitive dadaist collage on packages.

Now I'm in my sixties. I work each day in hope for "the genius," as baudelaire said, to "recover that childhood at will, a childhood brighter now--gifted for self-expression with the tools of adulthood."

Mail art originates in Dada: this thrills me.

Mail art is performance art: this ignites me.

--namaste,

Fi
(pronounced "fee")

My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail): 103 White Birch ct.
Greenbelt, MD 20770
USA

If you want to check out my current art, the best bet is my ipernity website.

My opening venture in mail art was in 2009, with the wrappers & boxes I used to send books to people in a book-swapping club--paperbackswap.com (hardbacks, too; over a million titles available, last time I checked). Those folks mostly didn't know what mail art was & certainly didn't expect to get anything more than the book they requested from me. So it was great fun--it was like tossing art into the wind. I mailed off 220 artworks on packages before I made any scans. The photos here at IUOMA are are few of those old pieces.

Then I started making 6" x 9" collage postcards--did almost nothing but that for some 8-9 years--most of which went immediately in the mail. These days I'm still making & sending pcs, but my big thing, since 2018, is 11" x 17" collages--usually just cut paper, but sometimes with a little bit of paint or other media.

I love getting new mail art correspondents, but I haven't been on this site in a while, so I'm out of touch. =sad face= Send me something, and I will definitely send you something back! And I'll come back soon to look for new mail art pals.

[last update 2020-02-27]

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At 4:30pm on January 30, 2017, jon foster said…: I've got you down for the Trump event. I'll get that out to you later this week.

At 8:18pm on February 22, 2014, Jenny Kennedy said…: Happy Birthday Fi.

At 9:44pm on September 4, 2013, Bruno Cassaglia said…

At 11:40am on June 19, 2010, swinx said…: mail art call:

theme: "who I am"

format: max. A 4, technique: free
deadline: 31.12.2010
no fee, no jury, no returns

works should be send by post at the following address:

Cindy Schmid, Gützkower Str. 70, 17489 Germany

please insert name, surname, country, address + e-mail address [for notification of final documentation].

exhibition: may 2011 in Greifswald, Germany and on my web-site:
www.swinxgrafix.de

…and now show me, who you are…
thx
swinx

At 11:42pm on February 22, 2010, Jenn Grosso said…: oooohhhh sweet! i'm a little behind with sending out some mail art, but will be sending you a cool something something soon. see you in the mail!

At 8:52pm on February 22, 2010, Jenn Grosso said…: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! hope you have an awesome day!!!

At 10:38am on February 22, 2010, Evmorfia Ghika Rachouti said…: Happy Birthday!
Evmorfia

At 8:53am on December 3, 2009, Maurizio Follin said…: It’s Only Mail Art invites you to partecipate in the new project 2010

No Commercial Potential

The production of an art that fits exclusively one’s own creative needs without stooping to compromises to make it a consumer good

Formato: libero / Format: free

Technique free: 2 & 3 d, music, video, performance, poetry and small stories(on digital support)

Scadenza 10 dicembre 2010/ deadline: 2010, December 10th

nessuna restituzione, nessuna tassa, nessuna selezione,nessuna giuria / no return, no fee, no selection, no jury
(No pornography please)

I lavori vanno spediti al seguente indirizzo: / Works should be sent at the following address:

Maurizio Follin, Via M.te Cervino, 27
30173 Favaro V.to - Venezia - Italy

indicando nome, cognome, nazionalità ed indirizzo dell'artista + indirizzo e-mail (per l’invio della documentazione finale) ed eventuale sito web
please insert name, surname, country, address + e-mail address (for notification of final documentation) and web site if exist.

Tutti i lavori devono essere spediti per posta con affrancatura postale / All works must be send by post with postage stamps.

Catalogo on-line su sito: / On line catalogue on the website: http://itsonlymailartnocommercial.blogspot.com/

Catalogo in pdf scaricabile a cura di / pdf catalog by : Claudio Romeo

Esposizioni (in data da definire) presso / Exibition:
Galleria Terre Rare - Bologna
Garage N.3 Gallery - Venezia Mestre
Spazio espositivo "Barrique" - Scriò di Dolegna del Collio GO

Evento organizzato in collaborazione con / Event organized in collaboration with:
DodoDada Arte Postale - http://dododada.ning.com/
Terre Rare - http://http://www.terrerare.net/
Ambasciata di Venezia : http://www.artistampnews.com/dated_calls/html/italian_calls.html
Reantà Non Ordinaria - http://realtano.it/

Testi critici : Giancarlo Da Lio

Thank

At 8:25am on November 23, 2009, Maurizio Follin said…: Hi
is a pleasure to do your knowledge

(http://itsonlymailart.blogspot.com/)
Maurizio

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