What To Do With Add and Pass Sheets

[jon foster]

15 Things to Do with Add and Pass Sheets
(Feel Free to Add to this List and Pass On)

1. Add something to the sheet and then pass them onto someone else.
2. Toss them into a river and let fish feast on them.
3. Use them to light an effigy to Ray Johnson.
4. Correct the wording of “add and pass” to “add to and return” and then send on.
5. Cut them into pieces for your gerbil cage bedding.
6. Glue a pile of them back into the shape of a tree and then plant that tree in a forest.
7. Write your grocery lists on them.
8. Write notes to members of your family you don’t care for.
9. Write a confusing will on them.
10. Fashion them into air planes you toss into the sky from a very tall mountain. 11.
11. Sit them in piles on the side of your desk. As the pile gets larger so does your disdain for their basic existence. You cry out your hatred in fits of rage that cause you to periodically push the pile onto the floor only to fashion them back into a pile over and over. The world is dark and lonely, and your pile of add and passes remind you of this misery.
12. Make them into fun hats.
13. Print pictures of your ugliest children on them.
14. Scream at first sight of one.
15. Perform an exorcism to rid the world of their evil nature.

[Mail Art News]

One out of every 35 add and passes might could / could might be interesting. 

If it does look good already, then I'll keep it and not add anything. 

Maybe something more thematic such as:

• Add an image of a bird and pass it on. 
• Add a rubber stamped image and pass it on.  
• Add some hand written text and pass it on. 

Those examples as recommended by the International Congress of Mail Art, convened 3/17/2023 would make add and passes more interesting, more cohesive, and a more productive use of mail art time/space. 

Many add and passes aren't very interesting or cohesive. If one called them "sloppy crap" that wouldn't be too far off the mark. I really try my best to not send sloppy crap in the mail, though it does happen sometimes due to the extreme pressures placed upon the mail artist to provide a constant supply of free artistic content via the postal system to random strangers in far away lands.