Good Western Bad Romance Artists Book by Rebecca Guyver (Suffolk, UK)

[De Villo Sloan]

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

December 3, 2014 - While I miss her once frequent, themed contributions to the MinXus-Lynxus blog, I understand Rebecca Guyver is making vital contributions to the common good of the Eternal Network. Her sail-art has taken off. She is hosting highly successful exhibitions and calls. The documentation is superb and meticulous. So I was thrilled and a little surprised to receive this wonderful, thoughtful cowpo(ke) boekie from her and marvel she can find the time to send out work. Rebecca Guyver is a master of MinXus-themed art, and I consider this among her finest.

This extraordinary boekie, in my estimation, manages to combine the pulp western with the bad romance theme. So in the endless permutations of classic popcult, I label this a good western bad romance. The protagonist is a character very much like the Mink Rancher, so we likely have roman a clef. The bad romance concept rightfully belongs to the Museum of Bad Mail-Art (MOBMA) folks, although I am not hesitating to appropriate it for MinXus-Lynxus, following Miss Becca’s lead.

As will be explained in more detail later, the background designs use vispo by me.

And closure with both front and back covers:

A simple boekie, nowhere near as expansive as some previous productions, but extremely effective. Rebecca Guyver usually provides messages stating her intentions and rationale:

And the reverse:

The envelope completes the package:

A new (to me at least) DKult stamp is an added bonus:

As ever, thanks to Rebecca Guyver!

[De Villo Sloan]

Heartfelt commentary, Rebecca, for sure. I cannot deny that MinXus had a L'Age d'Or as some have termed it. And I am left to keep the fires burning, largely shunned and condemned on the fur-ious front. But then the Minxus space-time continuum is different.

What no one (but me) understands is that MinXus must go on or there will be no Trashpo because "Trashpo is the opposite of MinXus" and "MinXus is the opposite of Trashpo" and we can only fully know the one by its opposite. It is not what it is. You see?

So please, when you can, continue to produce these treasures. Dark wall thanks you. I thank you.

[Rebecca Guyver]

Who knew the mail would be so reliable around Christmas! And what a nice blog.  I just love the asemic piece you sent me and like I said, it was rattling aound with me and I finally decided I'd do an 'unsnactioned collab' because the feel of the paste paper seemed to fit and of course I was thinking about rancher and pining for a yesteryear of ML.  I'm sure Carina deserves a nod too. Her sense of storytelling seems to be rubbing off on me and I was thinking about her iconic work as I selected images. 

I can't really thank my influences enough (so many.. DK, Marie, Herman Kamphuis etc etc). exchanging makes me think differently and better.  But having a laugh, lots of laughs may be even more essential!