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El scanner llega a reproducir la intensidad de los colores. Sorry!

Muchas Gracias Maurizio!…

July 31, 2010 - Tina Festa was very thoughtful in sending me this collage, which I will treasure. Among the different aspects of her art is weaving paper. She has a keen eye for different kinds of paper textures and typography. I'm drawn to this work especially because: (1) She incorporates weaving, an ancient tradition; and why not draw from all sources available to us and in doing so "make it new"? (2) Tina Festa's paper weaves are ingenious constructs that generate random…

Please check out 'My Photos' for the newly uploaded photos of the first two Friends & Faux postcards to safely return home! Curious that they should both arrive on the same day, but I am very impressed that they have both made it home so quickly. FF#1 departed on April 19th (despite date stamp) and FF#8 on April 16th, so they have made the round trip in less than 3 months! FF#1 travelled from UK to Australia to UK to USA to Argentina back to UK. FF#8 is more of a mystery, and the only…

Ok it was 1985. I did this poster for the show. This photo is actually an upgraded computer art version of the original...my computer art looked like this: (It is a solid…

Sharon Silverman sent me a very nice photocopy documenting my contributions to her most recent call. My work, upper right - I BELIEVE IN AMERICA - is part of a new series dedicated to exploring the ideas of religion and politics in the USA. It was great to see the other contributors to this call. I LOVE the LOWER LEFT multifaceted face of Jesus. Many thanks for the documentation for…

WA artist LKZ Felker and I are mailing a piece back and forth to each other - adding gifts, comments and additional ephemera to the same package. The envelope here has gone through several itirations already and I was gifted with stockers and tatoos for Randy…

Watercolor paper camel in vinyl with encouragement (Neil Young) to "Kep On Rockin In The Free World" by Austin Wills James from Texas.…

Hamd stamped and embelished work by MM. Both front and reverse are expertly created with a self…

I'm new to mail art and so far I have received three really neat pieces. I've sent one out and am trying to get in the mind frame to sent out much much more. I am really excited to be a part of all this and am glad that all of you are out there.

-Mark

Please send absurd mail art to P.O. Box 2373 Spring Valley, CA 91977

This is my first project an I am definitely looking forward to to seeing what happens.

Deadline will be December 31st 2010.

No fee, no jury, no returns.

Any postal object, any technique.

Will be documented at http://mrklvlnd.wordpress.com/

Thanks,

Mark