My week in mail art blogjam

[DKeys]

Dean tells me that his wife is his greatest inspiration-if she tells him to throw something in the bin, it gives him the idea to make art out of it. I like thinking of his wife as the human trashpo detection system-what is garbage to her, is art to us. I don't know why, but I bet she is good at spotting bullshit too. I love the way Dean has assembled all these postcards. I'd say he collaged them together, but they each remaind relatively intact and not blended. It's more like a mosaic.

Next I received a new entry for the Trashpo call from Brasil. It is a trashpo first, as I have never received empty pill capsules before. What an original idea! I have no idea how to display these for the show but I will find a way.
 It is posted on my blog at dianekeys.blogspot.com

This week I also was flooded with button christmas by Stephanie Blake, Button Queen, and Lisa Skybridge, Queen of..well.....fucking everything!!!!

I hadn't hearf from Cuan in awhile so was thrilled to get this most unusual piece. It is constructed from temporary tattoos and looks like a cover of a graphic novel. It is dark and edgy, just like I like.

Next I received this piece, yet I don't know who it is from. The address label looked familiar, like Svenja's but it is not from her. Not sure who had the 'trashiest holiday' but I desperately want to know!!!!--more after brief NING overload intermission.....

[DKeys]

Huge profits being made for sure. They prematurely approve drugs reeping profits that far exceed the price of the law suit settlements to follow.

[De Villo Sloan]

In the 90s, Damien Hirst did an installation (it's really well known) called "Pharmacy" where he built the inside of a pharmacy in a museum. I didn't pay much attention, but someone told me he made all the pills himself out of clay that he painted - like hundreds or even thousands of them. I think a lot of people have been influenced by that work. I guess it was, indeed, a commentary on Big Pharma and the medicated-zombie society.

[De Villo Sloan]

Everything I see is just empty medicine containers: boxes, plastic bubble things, labels - Trashpo.

[DKeys]

That's so weird. I didn't realize pillpo was some kind of trend. I must admit getting pills from Brasil made me nervous. Do you think the envelope got sniffed by dogs? Mail Art  can be dangerous I suppose. Yes, the buttons are fantastic and Lisa said she was inspired by the Steph/Claire project.

[De Villo Sloan]

Impressive haul, DK. These Trashpo buttons - including the Skybridge work I haven't seen before - are a whole new direction for Trashpo.

What is up with this empty pill thing? I just received something from TIC TAC that has what looks like plastic holders for allergy medicine or something. There's also a woman on Open Fluxus who has been posting the boxes of all the medicine she has been taking - it's been going on for months. A comment on how TOXIS through Big Pharma has turned all non-Dkulters into zombies?

The Cuan Miles piece is a beauty!

[DKeys]

this is the mystery art from Germany