Comments - RECEIVED: Old School Style Mail-Art from Honoria Starbuck (Austin, Texas, USA) - International Union of Mail-Artists2024-03-29T06:44:44Zhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2496677%3ABlogPost%3A314662&xn_auth=noHi Honoria, thank you for the…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2011-03-18:2496677:Comment:3191132011-03-18T16:25:51.231ZDe Villo Sloanhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/DeVilloSloan
Hi Honoria, thank you for the comment and the mail-art. "Failed mail-art" - now I understand. There is usually a simple explanation beneath all that seems at first cryptic. The conventions of mail-art fascinate me. Thank you too, Kat, because I did not know this about envelopes! I'm forever recollecting the days of my youth when these strange packages started arriving in my mailbox from New York City. They were mail-art of some sort and contained the work of many people. These things were…
Hi Honoria, thank you for the comment and the mail-art. "Failed mail-art" - now I understand. There is usually a simple explanation beneath all that seems at first cryptic. The conventions of mail-art fascinate me. Thank you too, Kat, because I did not know this about envelopes! I'm forever recollecting the days of my youth when these strange packages started arriving in my mailbox from New York City. They were mail-art of some sort and contained the work of many people. These things were bundles, whatever they were. I might have plugged into one of the old Fluxus networks because I was interested in Higgins' Something Else Press. Great stuff friends, thanks again. It is a great piece, Honoria!…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2011-03-18:2496677:Comment:3189952011-03-18T15:25:35.578ZKaterina Nikoltsou (MomKat)https://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/KaterinaNikoltsou
<p>It is a great piece, Honoria! And a thought-provoking blog, Sloan. "Orthodox" mail artists will hold to the golden rule that mail art is NOT mail art if it is in an envelope. But the times...they have changed. Here in Europe...and other places, mail goes through machines, no human being reads the address...or hunts up the address in the middle of an art piece. It MUST be on the lower right, clean and clear, or, it is "failed". And if not returned, then tossed in the graveyard of failed-mail…</p>
<p>It is a great piece, Honoria! And a thought-provoking blog, Sloan. "Orthodox" mail artists will hold to the golden rule that mail art is NOT mail art if it is in an envelope. But the times...they have changed. Here in Europe...and other places, mail goes through machines, no human being reads the address...or hunts up the address in the middle of an art piece. It MUST be on the lower right, clean and clear, or, it is "failed". And if not returned, then tossed in the graveyard of failed-mail to die a lonely death without being loved and viewed.</p>
<p>In Greece, to put my mail art in an envelope and seal it costs the same postage as an open postcard. However, I am free to create oh so much more on the mail art piece, original art without the fear of it being "eaten" and shredded by a machine. Then, too, we can "art" up the envelope...within limits, of course.</p>
<p>Postal systems are picky...lots of security checks for that "odd" mailing, too. sigh.</p>
<p>Greek postal clerks gringe if the mailing isn't simply "standard"!</p> Thanks so much for your refle…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2011-03-18:2496677:Comment:3189892011-03-18T15:09:26.800Zhonoria starbuckhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/honoriastarbuck
Thanks so much for your reflections. It's an added layer of communication to hear how a piece of mail art is received. The piece with the drawing and India ink from the sketchbook originally went out as a post card but was returned to my mailbox. I resent it in the envelope. The "failed mail art" referred to the post card sending attempt. See you in the mail and in the Ning.
Thanks so much for your reflections. It's an added layer of communication to hear how a piece of mail art is received. The piece with the drawing and India ink from the sketchbook originally went out as a post card but was returned to my mailbox. I resent it in the envelope. The "failed mail art" referred to the post card sending attempt. See you in the mail and in the Ning.