Mail art or mail craft?

I have been giving this some thought, and I think that mail art might actually be a genre within which the boundaries between art and craft are so blurred that they actually cease to matter/exist at all (stamp-carving - indisputably a craft - is, after all, one of the mainstays of the mail art movement). For example, a piece of cross stitch that has been stamped, addressed and mailed holds just as much weight, in the mail art world, as an oil-painted envelope. This thought makes me happy, and far more benevolently inclined towards the term 'artist'! Or perhaps I just mean mail artist... :-)

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Comment by Bettina Alcántara on April 15, 2010 at 9:12pm: Your comment makes consciousness to break the boundaries of art. These very present in your work. Some day we'll share something... If you think.

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