FRIEDER SPECK's Beautiful Art Joke On Me

10 linocut prints arrived, each on its own napkin: These 6 are shown photographed laid out carefully on a wooden floor. The following 4 I scanned individually: Frieder printed these beauties out on tissues-napkins, each one 8"x8" and folded neatly back into a small 3"x4" bought-tissue package, the kind you would carry around in your pocket or bag for those unfortunate moments when you need a tissue or napkin and don't have time to run off and find one. Frieder wrote in a note that these are "for the days when you have to cry that your mail art piece is lost" (one of mine to him was lost for 5 weeks) "or for every day without mail art." "One each!" he emphasized. Not a chance, Frieder. Despite tears, I have not reached for these! These will be protected and appreciated, perhaps in groupings, in frames.

 

I am a huge fan of Frieder's art, and it blew me out of the water to receive so many great works at once. Their arrival really was quite the joke, because they were folded up into this tiny package, and I thought that was what he'd sent--tissues as a joke, probably because he and Svenja had been teasing me about some secret. Maybe this WAS the secret. It was here for maybe half an hour before I noticed a bit of black ink spotting at the top of the package. How he ever got these 10 pieces to fit so neatly back into the package I'll never know. Is it a secret, Frieder?

The little tissues package is being included in a comment. You really have to see it to believe it. German tissues are a lot stronger than U.S. tissues--more like good paper napkins in a barely sub-linen restaurant.

Absolutely one of the very top highlights of my months in mail art, Frieder! Thank you again, very very much.

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Comment by DKeys on October 2, 2011 at 3:34pm
ingenius idea=Frieder's art is so amazing thanks for posting Nancy-I don't know that I would have ever thought to look inside!
Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on October 2, 2011 at 2:56am
No cry, no sneeze, no laugh, no laugh till you cry, no reacting to strange leaves in autumn.
Comment by Svenja Wahl on October 1, 2011 at 11:32pm
Really fantastic, Frieder! And a wonderful blog, Nancy, thank you! :)
Comment by Susan McAllister on October 1, 2011 at 8:31pm
Wow. They are so beautiful.
Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on October 1, 2011 at 8:29pm
Frieder's ten 8"x8" tissue-linocut-prints fit back into this 3"x4" tissue package. Such a multi-talented guy, eh? 

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