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. 

[De Villo Sloan]

Yes, Erni. Glad you added WSB. Once you commented - on something I did with holes & comparing it to Burroughs - that shooting pages & canvases, various kinds of text as well as forcing holes - actually Cheryl Penn once did a book savaging the pages with a knife - was an attempt to break down the relationship between art and the audience to push beyond the surfaces of conventional art. I thought that was tremendous observation. 

Holism in our humble MinXus-Lynxus was established to encourage just this sort of thing - encouraging artists to make hole in their work. Then nothingness becomes part of the work. Perhaps, eventually, art will be nothingness. 

[De Villo Sloan]

Lynn's amazing piece as well as Nancy & Erni reminded me of this music composed by Dick Higgins (circa 1962) by firing a rifle at blank music paper (chance operations system). I believe this was later performed by an orchestra conducted by Philip Corner.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

"Weirdly beautiful." That is THE term for how this thing hit me. (Maybe with a "very" in front of the "weirdly.") You do that a lot, Lisa.

And "physical decomposition of language," DVS. That hit too, but I had no words for it (ironic, isn't it). 

[Eraser Heed]

The perfect artifact!

[De Villo Sloan]

Where is Cheryl Penn, This is literally the physical decomposition of language. I hope some of this type of work is getting to liketelevisionsnow for that decomposing collage he is putting together, Fantastic work

[Lynn Radford]

You are most welcome, Nancy! I'm just glad to know it found it's right-proper home. Thanks for blogging it! Hope you have a delightfully rusty day! :D