Found trashpo/rustpo sign from Lynn Radford! Let's guess: This sign didn't work?

[Nancy Bell Scott]

If you love rust, trashpo, tin, and old signs, mail art couldn't get much better than this. Here is what it looked like straight out of its packaging, before the window provided the sun's backlighting: Wild! I don't care for or know much about hunting or guns, but it's clear who the sign was intended for and how much they felt attracted to it. I haven't counted the bullet holes yet.

Lynn tells me she nearly took tin snips to it: "It almost ended up being little postcards." Lucky for me that it didn't, and here's why it didn't, in Lynn's own words:

"Gift or burden, I tend to file away people's likes and preferences and I see them everywhere! It keeps those I care about close, as I am constantly reminded of them. For instance, my oldest daughter had liked ducks for years... I saw ducks everywhere! I thought of her often and just as often bought them for her. Imagine my surprise when she switched to ELEPHANTS! Now, I see ducks and elephants! No counting sheep here! LOL

Since joining IUOMA... Bananas have new meaning! Bits of trash and lists don't just inspire me, they remind me of DK. Barcodes are now forever linked to Paris in my mind... Rusty objects still enthrall me, but I can't help but think of you when I stumble on them these days. My mind is not my own. It belongs to all those who have touched me in some way."

That's a beautiful thing, Lynn. Thank you so much for your generous sensibility and for the wildest and most dramatic sign I've ever had! What a keeper. 

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

sweet Erni! I don't recall ever having seen that picture of the Man..yet it's familiar too...rather haunting...

[Nancy Bell Scott]

What makes up that cool looking thing at the back right of your urban exploration photo below, Erni?

[Carina]

DVS, Yes please use the photo(s) as you like! Photographic vispo, hm..

Claire, Agrees with the "open eyes..." !

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

This is utterly cool! Also adore what you said Lynnn - "My mind is not my own. It belongs to all those who have touched me in some way." Really, really nice... I was just thinking the other day how there are certain things I look at and think of differently since the advent IUOMA in my life... Trash especially! when I open a package of something or other & look at it, now I often think, "Ah, I can't believe I didn't see that/threw that away." I love how others help us open our eyes... (btw, Neil & I are all RUST  FREAKS fyi! %_^ For me, it's any old metal thing, but the more deteriorated, the better!)

A favorite image of mine that seems to be in tune with some o' the theme here:

(Jean) "Cocteau with Gun," by Berenice Abbott, 1926

Godard once sd that all you needed to shoot a movie was "a girl and a gun."

[Lynn Radford]

Great comments and photos! Let's not forget the "Shot Marilyns" which so distressed poor Andy... Dorothy Podber performance art piece/gag gone bad... now they're worth pretty pennies! I love A.W. to pieces, but I always thought the "Shot Marilyns" were far more interesting. 

[De Villo Sloan]

Carina, this is great photographic vispo. You should think about more. Any chance I could post it on M-L if I do all appropriate attributions to you?

[Carina]

Thanks DVS!

Gun Crazy.. or Gone Crazy..

[De Villo Sloan]

Carina, you have made an astute observation about borders between states in the USA. I used to drive between New York and Pennsylvania (where line Radford lives) a lot. As you drive into NY, the border signs are riddled with bullet holes. The NY signs are far more shot up than the PA signs. People I've talked to about this say it's fairly universal between states. Not sure what it means.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

That was a great one! Before my time, I'm glad you posted the link.

[Carina]

Took these photos in Nevada this summer..