Blue String Drawing #1212 is a conceptualist installation in the international mail system. You can learn more about the project, and see the map for it, by following the links at www.pythagoreanmetronome.com.
The most recently mailed packages went to Portland, Oregon, Achill Island, Ireland, Gent, Belgium and Tokyo, Japan. You can see the map for the project here<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100119808025425203136.00045f5616438583bc8ad&ll=9.640316,-90.657903&spn=177.090153,360&z=1> . The images, as they are made available to me from the recipients of the mailings, can be seen here<http://www.flickr.com/photos/pythagoreanmetronome/?saved=1>. There will be more images from this month's mailings but I wanted to follow up on the images I have already received with a few remarks. Both the flickr site and the google maps site are lacking in content and somewhat uninteresting aside from the intrinsic interest of the images themselves. I would very much like suggestions about how to improve those sites. The flickr photostream, for example, allows one to put comments and notes on every image, but I myself have very little time to do so and I am not sure what sort of supplementary comments would work. Should I perhaps develop a whole series of meditations on loss/loneliness based on the idea of a "message in a bottle"? Or perhaps a long meditation on mail art? Would writing anything about the pictures add anything to the overall idea? Also, the packages don't really "fit" in the places where they are put. The packages are oddly alien to their locations. I take this to be a kind of metonym or metaphor for the presence of People, i.e. Human Beings, in the natural world. We are just sort of stuck into the universe in a weird way that doesn't exactly fit. I would be interested to know what others think. best, Thomas -- www.pythagoreanmetronome.com
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