Trashpo by Erica Durante (DKULTJER President) (Waldwick, New Jersey, USA)

Erica - 3.4.2015 - 1

Mail-art by Erica Durante (Waldwick, New Jersey, USA)

March 3, 2015 - Erica Durante is a wonderful correspondent. Her work often explores the verbal-visual realm (as some have attempted to describe vispo), and so we have that affinity. As this recent work testifies, Erica also works with found material and has ventured into the area of Trashpo. I believe this collage with its careful layering (yet anti-art aesthetic) and juxtapositions of language is, indeed, the finest Trashpo she has sent me thus far.

As a member of DKULTNY (DKult New York), I enjoy a blissful and uncomplicated mail-art relationship with Eric Durante who is a member of nearby DKULTJER (DKult New Jersey and by default its president). I am greatly relieved, and this wonderful mail art is an affirmation, that the recent controversy involving Meeah Williams and the formation of DKULT Brooklyn has not intruded upon my network relations with Erica.

When DKULTNY announced the transfer of Meeah Willams to DKULTJER, we probably should have consulted with Erica Durante and other members of that chapter. However, Meeah Williams refused the transfer and DKULT Brooklyn is now a reality. A saving grace of the affair is that Erica was never dragged into the fray and Meeah remains a thorn in the side of DKULTNY with little impact upon and no interest in New Jersey.

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As ever, deepest thanks to Erica Durante. I am relieved our relationship has not been tarnished by DKULT Brooklyn.

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Comment by DKeys on March 5, 2015 at 7:57pm

I think it is because he knows the TrashIdols are calling him to write the Trashpo Bible and he is overwhelmed at having to shut himself into the Mansion and do it. We have someone standing by waiting to carve it in marble and yet, he has been a no show

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 5, 2015 at 7:37pm

I thought about that too, DK.

That is the martyrdom of Jesus Jim. He gave Trashpo to the world & he is worshipped by the Kulters and Trashpoets. Only you and KDJ rob him of the adulation. He's like the Holy Ghost or something. Trashpo is his cross to bear in the world because he created it.

Comment by DKeys on March 5, 2015 at 4:48pm

I am concerned by how easily Jesus Jim was willing to give up his title of Savior to you

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 5, 2015 at 3:31pm

Thanks, DK. If DK says it's Trashpo, then it's Trashpo. That would only change if Jesus Jim said it wasn't Trashpo; he wouldn't do that.

Erica is a wonderful correspondent and she skillfully navigated the ship of DKult New Jersey through the stormy seas of the Meeah Williams Affair. Probably Erica never knew it happened. Luckily for her, Meeah refused the transfer anyway.

Comment by DKeys on March 5, 2015 at 12:19pm

Love this! can't stand looking at the curly Qs at the bottom--simple pristine but clearly trashpo

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