Destroyed by Sayori Yu

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Comment by Juan Petry 1 hour ago

hello michael,

thanks for your background info. and thanks ilya for pointing out this motivation. we should ever focus on the positive and try to not hurt others. in times of digial destruction there is no trust in picel at all. there are even some plugins for screenediting to simulate a burning.

you are free to send mail art and the receiver should be free to do whatever (s)he likes. with no expectations life is smarter and less coleteral damage on the way.

your project sounds nice. you ever heard about my moving mailboxes - project? 

https://muarco.org/muarco-the-mobile-p-o-box-1/

i will publish the next location in spring.

best

Comment by Ilya Semenenko-Basin 13 hours ago

michael, 

Don't let this incident upset You. Let's try to see this as a prophetic gesture that reminds us of more meaningful values. There is no such person as Sayori Yu. Details can be found in a personal message. Take a look in the inbox. 

This guy created a Facebook group (There's the same photo) :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2072466186853682

Comment by Kiki 14 hours ago

Then, if you had affixed the real Kyrgystan postage stamps on the envelope, not the fake selfmade stamps by you, Sayori Yu would not have burnt the mail...

Comment by michael thompson 15 hours ago

Juan, 

My particular form of mail art involves my making fake stamps for various countries, which I put on envelopes and occasionally send to folks in those countries, with the hope that they will put them into mailboxes, get cancelled and delivered to me. In this case the recipient, Sayori Yu, chose to burn the envelopes instead. Folks sometimes object to my imagery but this the first of such a public display of distain.

Comment by Juan Petry 17 hours ago

hi, i do not get that. this is an evelope from Kyrgyzstan to the us... so it looks as it is not a delivered art from us to Kyrgyzstan... so what does it means... maybe more - tragical - as you see for now...

Comment by Pam Chatfield 17 hours ago

Note to self.  No mailart to Sayori Yu.  In my humble opinion, this is unacceptable.

Comment by Bradford yesterday

Good to know.  Don't send Mail Art to Sayori Yu unless you want it reduced to ashes.

Comment by michael thompson yesterday

I sent a few envelopes to Sayori Yu in Kyrgyzstan hoping that she would place them into mailboxes, instead I discovered how she actually disposed of them- by lighting them on fire and reducing them to ashes. Certainly a dubious choice but one she seems rather proud of. Draw your own conclusions.