Stephen Rife

Male

Saint Paul, MN

United States

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:

1989

My Website (without http://):

http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/steve-rife-tweaks-artpolice-instal...

Why I am involved in Mail-Art:

To rejoin the hand to the spirit, the foot to the hand, the paper to the word.

I've been involved in Mail Art for several decades, beginning in the late 80s, when I invited people to contribute, by mail, to a program for cable access here in the Midwestern US. Postcards, art video, letter-art, poetry, detourned ads, mysterious objects. In downtown St. Paul, in a former boot factory, I maintained a shrine for several years, to a figure I no longer remember the name of. (The shrine was kept in an envelope.) It had acolytes in the form of postcards, bearing figures and landscapes that helped me sing the name of the hidden figure. Within a span of some thirty years, this devoted pageant came together in a final rite, giving birth to a mother. "More to come," they said. Man, were they right. (A few of their holy siblings can be found through the video link below.)
For instance, a sighting/summation, a word of warning about the virtual posting, in the period post postcard:

Winds of Noisome Publicity;
Lands of Groundless Assertion;
Seas of data, desire inflamed, and desire unquenched...

My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)

3433 N 14th Street
Saint Louis, MO 63107
USA

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  Ilya Semenenko-Basin

  Thank You, Stephen! 

  I'm glad my mail reached You. Emperor Hadrian is very good in English translation!

  Nov 18, 2024

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  Caitlin Friesen

  Delayed thank you for your mail art! Sending something back this week!

  Feb 10

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  Kiki

  Hello Stephen,

  I got your two art cards by you - thank you!

  Happy IUOMA 🍀

  Mar 23