BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 19, 2021 at 9:16am

Bon Jour Val!

heeheeheee

...maybe because the Mail Art Call to Puerto Rico

is asking for "postcard"  *10x6 inches size entries?

(English translation :-)

"VOICES: IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC" The year 2020 left us, 
among so many things, a pandemic experience. 
It had not occurred in Puerto Rico or other parts of the world 
more than a hundred years ago. Like any major global event, 
the COVID 19 pandemic provokes various reactions to this 
historical situation. 
We see it in all areas of knowledge and from each of these spaces 
we hear diverse voices that tell their story of gain or loss, 
of new horizons. In the art world there are also voices that are expressed 
from different disciplines. 
For this reason, the 2nd International Mail Art of the Association of Plastic 
Artists of Puerto Rico (known by its acronym AAPPR) was created,
 entitled "Voices in the midst of the pandemic." 
There will be total freedom of media or support

*remaining within the 4 "x 6" mail art format (10.16 cm x 15.24 cm) 

DEADLINE TO RECEIVE THE WORKS: Thursday, JULY 15, 2021 
DATE OF EXHIBITION: IN CELEBRATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST DAY
 ON OCTOBER 25, 2021.
Send to:
AAPPR
Association of Plastic Artists of Puerto Rico,Inc.
P.O.Box 8608
Fernandez Juncos Station
San Juan, Puerto rico 00910-0605
 
Exhibition will be documented in the official Blog of 
"VOICES: In the Middle of the Pandemic" 
and there will be a face-to-face Expo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 
Then we will inform the day and place of the exhibition. 
Visit our page on Facebook Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico, 
Inc.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 18, 2021 at 6:12pm

Hello and Welcome to our new Puero Rico Plasticienes...to whom I have a question --:what, if anything, has your 'Voces' posting got to do with Boring Postcards? It is far from obvious( to me at least) -- please explain. Thank you. Val

Comment by Asoc. de Artistas Plásticos PR on May 18, 2021 at 3:50pm

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 15, 2021 at 11:05am

TWO MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA (Mikel: sorry for the delay in posting these, but I lost them for a few days after cleaning up my study)

1.Central District, Hong Kong

Four boring skyscrapers and one interesting colonial-style domed buiding in front of them.

Does anyone know what the Chinese writing on the red banner says?

2. Calle Carmen 4 (Puerto del Sol), Madrid, Spain

This is a Postcard handed out by the Hotel Europa and Café Europa which are in the building front right

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 15, 2021 at 10:54am

FROM MIKEL UNTIZILLA -- thanks Mikel!

Gare du Nord, Paris (Fraance, not Texas)

A nice view of the front of the station. But look what happened in 1895...

The train crash photos are NOT postcards, but I thought a' before and after' view of the staion might ake Mikel's Postcard a bit less Boring...and even Interesting

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on May 2, 2021 at 8:43pm

A tired postcard... great term!

And belated thank you for the snapshot of Mr Boots - the blue and bluest eye look wonderful! If that photo would have bern a postcard I would have bought one (as a far-from-boring-and-very-interesting-impressionist-art-postcard)!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 2, 2021 at 6:13pm

DOW CHEMICAL MAIN OFFICE BUILDING, MIDLAND MICHIGAN....FROM DIANA HALE

An old and rather tired postcard with no information provided. Thanks Di!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 18, 2021 at 7:30pm

Thanks Heleen,

1. "what if you are not a donkey and love donkeys?" I can't possibly answer that here where children might be looking. (I might confess though to not being a Siamese cat and love Siamese cats. I would like to be reincarnated as a Siamese cat like Mr. Boots.)

2.

2. "It seems that the escalator in front is swallowing people!.." I agree. It swallowed people up, and that was the end of them. Hence Brexit....

3. "btw how comes card nr 2 to hang above your desk when you think it boring? Did it hang with the picture in front or the message?" The card is dated 1977, and sent on one of my visits to Brussels to my family in Krimpen a/d Ijssel. I wasn't 'into' boring postcards then. I don't know of any works on that subject before Martin Parr came along at the end of the 1990's. Going back almost 45 years, I wonder if Mail Art as we know it here because of, and through IUOMA existed that long ago? 5But PLEASE let's not have a discussion about the history of Mail Art here!)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 18, 2021 at 7:19pm

Thanks John,

Berlaymont was full of asbestos which the EU discovered very late on. They closed it down, moved people to other (often temporary) buildings in Brussels, took all the asbestos out, refunished/refurbished it, and opened it up again. You probably saw it during this asbestos-clearing process. In the words of a Commission spokesman at the time, 'We are doing as best as we can'. (Sorry about that!)

Comment by John Gayer on April 18, 2021 at 8:27am

Those holes in Bruxelles pic give a strange aura of having eyes. Had no idea that building's been around for such a long time. I saw it in person about 20 years ago and thought it was under construction. Maybe it was being refurbished.

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