Mail Art Suitcase

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Comment by vizma bruns on February 20, 2013 at 1:39am

Touche'

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 20, 2013 at 1:35am

Comment withdrawn. I admit I might have been a little harsh, and it's not fair to BF to make him a poster child. He was not involved. 

Oh Boy just said all I was trying to say - only he said it better. 

Comment by Oh Boy on February 20, 2013 at 1:33am

Oh Boy! DeVillo Sloan! vizma bruns!
Mail Art allows for you to be whoever you want to be.

Comment by vizma bruns on February 20, 2013 at 1:31am

Ugh. Found it. Yeah, that's an attack.

Comment by vizma bruns on February 20, 2013 at 1:12am

And who's to say I'm really vizma bruns and you're DeVillo Sloan? Don't worry your pretty little head about it, some people just don't get it. I didn't know that people were being interrogated/challenged. I'm tired of pretty v. ugly art debates, personas, the lot. I don't give a shit. Just f..ing send mail art. 

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 20, 2013 at 1:00am

Exactly - and Blessed Father is a mail--art persona, a very cool one.

I just don't get this thing where people are being challenged at IUOMA for whatever work they might be doing with multiple identities, which is a foundation of ma.

Some artists might want a persona to find the freedom to pursue a new avenue of expression, some might be using it as a performance art concept. Why interrogate them? It's about freedom of expression. 

Comment by vizma bruns on February 20, 2013 at 12:51am

And a lovely guy to boot. Very generous with sharing information. All hail BF!!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 20, 2013 at 12:43am

I'm with the other fans of this piece - it's fantastic.

And the thing is that it goes back two decades and BF is a longtime networker.

Now I have to tell you - when BF joined IUOMA and posted his work, I said: "Man, this guy has a handle on mail-art instinctively or he has been here before" - the stamps, the persona he has created (why are some people so mystified about mail-art persona (like Moan Lisa, DaDa Lovelace?) some of the greats in ma are invented characters, multiple persona. Like I wrote recently, Blaster Al had 18 different identities for his mail-art.

Well, anyway, thanks for sharing this Oh Boy - it;s great when folks dig into their archives.

Comment by Oh Boy on February 20, 2013 at 12:28am

It is 21 cm long (8.5 inches)
by 16 cm tall (6 inches)

1 cm thick (.5 inch)

Comment by vizma bruns on February 19, 2013 at 11:43pm

Very cool. What's the scale of this?

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