FinnBadger's Blog – December 2014 Archive (4)

Connectivity - a theory

I had admired Linda Faye French's series The Theory of Buttons. Each piece is subtitled, and, for me, the titles enhance the work.

Completely unexpected, The Theory of Buttons Solar, Electrical appeared in my mailbox.

Many silvered and blackened orbits, against a cosmic green and mauve firmament. With suns, planets, moons tightly…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 28, 2014 at 2:00pm — 5 Comments

The generous Mr Bär

One of the (many) things I like about mail art is chance encounters, which may turn into nothing. Or they may turn into something. Or they may turn into more than something.

I participated in a mail art call titled 'Le Labyrinthe', which my mail friend Jean let me know about.

The organizers sent out a catalog afterwards, and Laurence Gillot took my address from there and sent me a beautiful artist card.

I responded with one of my triangles, which…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 21, 2014 at 6:34pm — 6 Comments

Trashcan Sinatra

I had been wondering what to send back to Laurence in response to the great little game she sent me naked in the mail.

A few days after it arrived, on garbage collection day, this was attached to my trash can:

And the back:…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 18, 2014 at 7:58pm — 2 Comments

WW1 centenary faux postage from Fauxhio

Added by FinnBadger on December 3, 2014 at 7:31pm — No Comments

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