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Comment by Susan Weisberg on December 8, 2020 at 3:57am

Thanks, Heleen. Mail Art is so much more complex and multi-layered than I realized!

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on December 8, 2020 at 3:34am

I saw a question from Susan Weinberg about ATC, bit I cannot find where to answer. So I hope she/you will find it here :-)

Q: what is atc?

A: Artist Trading Card, a small handmade card, size 2.5 inch x 3.5 inch, which you can send to or swap with other artists. Any material is possible (if I read well, you like mixed media, and that is okay, too), if sent randomly and/or spontaneously, and sometimes there are specific ATC projects in which there can be suggestions about theme or material, depending on the project.

It has been inventief by a Swiss guy, and more information about history and more you can read on https://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/artist-trading-cards/ .

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 7, 2020 at 11:36am

These stamp albums with the transparent strips are available at Amazon, I prefer the 16-page ones as larger sizes get too heavy when filled with stamps and covers. They also have nice rice-paper dividers:

I use a stamp album for the small samples I get of artistamps:

but when mail artists send me full-page sheets, then I use the clear plastic in a large binder. Here i keep the original sheets and can easily take them out for making photocopies. Photocopies of these artistamps are often on my mail art:

Comment by Carien van Hest on December 7, 2020 at 10:25am

I also recommend to visit thrift stores, often they have a lot of office supplies that you can use.

Comment by Alan Brignull on December 6, 2020 at 10:13pm

Stock books are the answer, books with transparent strips across the pages which you can tuck the stamps behind. You can get them from philatelic suppliers.

Comment by Heide Monster on December 6, 2020 at 9:54pm

How to do store your postage stamps?  I have quite a few, and have been sticking them in a little binder, where they continually fall out and get mixed up.  I was thinking of a index card box, but that seems like work.  Thoughts?

Comment by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on December 6, 2020 at 6:04pm

I can say with confidence that I will never exchange digital works of art for such art objects that are made by hand from material, paint, paper ... Art does not exist in the human brain or on the retina, but it also relates to our entire body, with the dimension of the body, with touch, smell. A flickering screen cannot replace live communication with a thing. If the terrible high cost of mail stops mailing, I will still make my collages sitting in my room: postcards, stamps, paper, glue ...

Comment by Alan Brignull on December 6, 2020 at 5:20pm

Answered my own question. It's at the top under Options.

Comment by Alan Brignull on December 6, 2020 at 5:13pm

Is there any way to delete a photo or edit its title once uploaded?

Comment by carl baker on November 8, 2020 at 9:25pm

retraction, now there is something listed, sorry.(see below)

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