The Detroit layover minx by Rebecca Guyver (Suffolk, UK)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Rebecca Guyver (Suffolk, UK)

June 4, 2013 - Mail-art composed while travelling – on the road – could arguably inhabit an entire genre. Indeed, I understand that a branch of Neoism once broke off and reformed itself as Tourism. Postcards, a favourite mail-art medium, have long been associated with travel.

IUOMA friends are likely aware that our ever-faithful correspondent Rebecca Guyver recently left the pastoral wonders of the scenic Nayland Farm to visit the USA. I am comforted to know she is now safely returned to the farm after many adventures. 

Her harrowing airline trip produced this charming and somewhat atypical card she sent titled “Traveling Minx” and retitled by me “The Detroit Minx.” Never one not to include a kind message, I will let Rebecca Guyver explain in her own words the circumstances surrounding the creation of “The Detroit Minx”:

I congratulate Rebecca on this fine work produced under unusual conditions and without access to a well-stocked studio. “The Detroit Minx” stands as a testimony to her talents and as a memory of her journey to the USA.

 

[De Villo Sloan]

BTW - Ray Johnson was born and raised in Detroit,

[De Villo Sloan]

Detroit is famous among Kulters for the D-Konception. I thought Rebecca was making a pilgrimage.

[Rebecca Guyver]

Oh Diane, what an image! 

[DKeys]

I found out I was pregnant with my first child in a bathroom in Detroit==TMI yes, but true. So Detroit will always have a special place in my heart even though it is a cess pool.  Rebecca's femme looks very stately and well put together.  But I do sense a wild side under all that prim and proper

[De Villo Sloan]

I like Rebecca's portraiture (?) very much. This could possibly be an entry for the Empress Marie Antonette Look-A-Like Contest that MinXus will sponsor this summer.

I latched on to the Detroit location as being a contrast to locations we usually associate with Rebecca.

[Rebecca Guyver]

Self portrait? Never, especially if it's an Upper Eastside look! I'm the chaotic one, but she does seem to have bad hands like me.

And FYI, your postcard was made on the same plane, Diane, put together on Cranberry where I never had another minute and finally finished in Detroit, waiting, waiting, waiting.  Piecemeal mailart. Thanks for your support DVS and Diane. 

And another aside: our daughter is on an even more obnoxious flight today - Heathrow to San Francisco via via via. Let's hope she sends us some mail art.  DVS - that mystery card of yore was from her and she keeps meaning to reply.  I will encourage her by Skype!

[DKeys]

I said it before and I'll say it again-=I think Rebecca needs to be without glue more often. Her drawing skills are really wonderful. Is this a self-portrait? She definately doesn't look like she is from Detroit--Upper East side Manhattan ? definately