Mail Art Futility And Tacos

[jon foster]

I wrote a thing. If interested, read here. 

https://thejonfoster.blogspot.com/2025/08/mail-art-futilityand-taco...

[jon foster]

@Medwolf – Oh yeah, and I agree and that’s what I was trying to describe in my response. I guess I didn’t do that well enough.

@MH/Antipode – I’ve had the feeling you’ve described many times; I’ve also been around long enough to see this pattern in others. So often new folks dive right in and a bit too much. Quite often these folks burn themselves out after a short period of time and then disappear. I’ve sent hundreds of things for 16 years and I doubt I’m going to stop anytime soon. I was trying to express my frustration.

@Zorica – Thanks for reading. Don’t worry, I’ll be sending even if I’m not sure why or to what end anyone interacts with the things I make.

[Medwolf]

I have been around forever lol but to me mail art is like an onion, you peel it off in layers and sometimes you cry a lil bit, but of all that is said "it doesnt mean the onion isnt yummy" bha ha ha ha

[MH//ANTIPODE]

I have only been in Mail Art for a few months, yet I already feel strangely full, as if I sat at a banquet and tried to taste everything at once. At first it felt like liberation from the loneliness of my “normal” art, but the more I consumed, the more I began to sense that quiet undertone, a voice that asks: why, to what end?

Perhaps I mistook abundance for connection, or effort for meaning... Perhaps the paradox is built into Mail Art itself: the more you do, the less certain you feel. It is not a gallery, not an audience, not even a dialogue that can be counted on. It is scattering, even wasting, sending into the void. And still somehow the act nourishes.

In that sense Mail Art is a ritual of loss that teaches a kind of lightness. A banquet where overeating is part of the lesson, at least at some point... and i'm already picking up the fork again.

[Zorica Obradović]

I read it.

Honestly, I wasn't interested, but I'm a reading addict.

however, I really liked the text and the story.

*****

I personally squinted at her a little.

I am new to IUOMA and Mail-Art. My plan was to be a member for exactly one year, February 2024/2025.

...

"but everyone has a plan that doesn't work"...

I think I know, because I'm still here. one of those two reasons is that I didn't discover (understand, understand, find out) what task we ACTUALLY perform with mail art.

P.S. I hope this doesn't sound like a conspiracy theorist..

PS2 I don't know English language ..who knows how to make this noise..

THANK YOU JON FOSTER!

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