Alice and LaVona,
There are A LOT of different definition of art. Whether
you think it is art or not is SUBJECTIVE and I think
it should remain that way. Carlo Pittore would agree
with this.
As far as mail art as a letting go: I think some mail artists
are not willing to be responsible for their work and that is
bothersome to me and why I have never used an AKA.
Reed
----- Original Message -----
From: "LaVona Sherarts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ma-network@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: (",) mail art rant....
> One of my husband's photography students sent her self
> portrait out to people though out the country with no
> words or return address. It was random addresses of
> people in the phone book. It was all about letting go
> for her.
> I am a social artist so it is a bit the same for me. I
> do it, send it and let go. Whatever happens, happens.
> LaVona
>
> --- Alice Kitselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd recently dropped off a huge load of old
>> clothes to a thrift
>> shop that raises money for a local animal shelter.
>> I'd been thinking
>> about what happens to the stuff they don't sell?
>> Where does it go,
>> who gets it? I'd also been thinking about all the
>> stuff in department
>> stores that doesn't get sold.....
>> In my dream there were mountains made of stuff,
>> old stuff,
>> discarded stuff. People were taking shelter on these
>> piles which were
>> coming out of the ocean. Folks would trip and slide
>> and stuff would
>> go tumbling into the ocean and of course it would
>> rise giving the
>> people less and less area to be on.
>>
>> I got to thinking about art. What makes art art?
>> Who says it is art
>> anyway? Recently I took an out of town friend to our
>> famous Folk Art
>> Museum. We walked and gawked. She started to wonder
>> and question why
>> certain things were considered folk art. Mostly this
>> is a huge
>> collection of toys. Of course there are many things
>> which are crafts
>> by native cultures from around the world. Again, why
>> is it folk art?
>> And then there is the distinction between art and
>> craft.....
>>
>> And so, back to mail art. What makes something
>> "mail art"?
>>
>> I get all kinds of stuff sent to me in the guise
>> of mail art.
>> Sometimes it's just a postcard, sometimes it is a
>> collage, other
>> times it's a mini water color painting. Sometimes
>> it's an envelope
>> stuffed with someone's food packaging.
>>
>> Mail art......it's mail, but is it art? We all
>> have choices in
>> life, practically everything we do involves a
>> choice....
>>
>> I go into museums and see walls covered in art. I
>> pass quickly by
>> if nothing catches my eye. It could be famous
>> artist's work, but if
>> it doesn't "twang" in my heart and soul I just
>> cruise on by. I think
>> perhaps it helps that I grew up in New York City
>> across from a wild
>> and weird modern art museum. I saw a lot of stuff
>> that I would not
>> consider art. After all it still confounds me today
>> that era in art
>> where folks would simply paint a huge canvas white
>> and call that
>> art. ???
>>
>> I wonder how folks would react if I just sent
>> blank postcards?
>>
>> Dragonfly Dream
>> www.dragonflydream.com
>>
>> "It's something wonderful to get a letter. The
>> paper, the stamp, the
>> envelope. It is not just a piece of paper. It is
>> something sacred. "
>>
>> IBRAHIM ISMAIL ZAIDEN, a postman in Baghdad, Iraq.
>>
>> (quoted in the New York Times)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lavonasherarts
>
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