Stunning Trashpo debut by Gina Ulgen (Norwich, Norfolk, UK)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Gina Ulgen (Norwich, Norfolk, UK)

June 17, 2014 - Gina Ulgen is apparently a Trashpo contender. She not only sent me a very fine piece of Trashpo, Gina sent me an entire exhibition. I certainly admire this ingenious piece of mail-art. As you can see from her kind note in the top scan, she invited me to unveil it:

First, I unwrapped Gina Ulgen’s mail-art and took the liberty of creating a spontaneous scannerbed Trashpo composition (above) that is very cool. She has possibly made a breakthrough with self-generating Trashpo.

The suspense is mounting! The trashmasterpiece is draped in ominous black. I see shades of Indiana Rogers’ pioneering Trashparody in this work. Yet as the inventor of Trashpo  “Jesus Jim” Leftwich said: “Trashparody? That’s an impossibility.”

Gina Ulgen’s Trashpo sheds… indeed, it weeps tears of genius. The black shroud concealing the central work is yet another piece of utilitarian Trashpo. I am considering turning it into a DKult arm band. Shades of the great “Wrapper” Christo are present. But here is what you are really looking for:

Gina Ulgen has discerned Trashpo’s anti-art roots and expressed the position eloquently. Far from being a parodist, she is a purist! The “exhibition” arrived in this envelope, which I mistook for a missive from Rebecca Guyver and thus, perhaps, mishandled the opening:

And the reverse:

Many, many thanks to Gina Ulgen for this FAB work!

[De Villo Sloan]

[Gü]

My first solo exhibition! Thank you DVS!