Eryk
I recently recounted the first occurance of a mail art nature in my life. I
was in fifth grade at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. My
teacher's name was Mrs. Lively. One day after a party I launched a helium
balloon from the window of a second story room with a note asking whoever
found it to return the balloon to sender and gave my address at school. Three
weeks later a letter with my beat up index card note enclosed arrived. A
farmer from West Virginia had watched the balloon drift down into his cow
pasture. Everyone marvelled that my plan had actually worked and I had made
contact with someone in a far away place. Sort of a message in a bottle type
approach. Sometimes mail art is like that too.
RA
Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
> Art students have some hope, they're just misdirected idealists.
>
> They'll succeed when they quit being art students and just realize
> they were never better artists than they were when they were five and
> did the stuff that seemed to make sense in a weird way. Like my first
> fluxus artifact, age 13, a black frame with a gray corkboard behind
> glass, framing the word "rainbow" written in black and white.
>
> I think some kids come out of grad school for art theory and forget
> what art is; remembering the mumbo jumbo and continuation
> of certain schools and practices and the "gradual synthesis of
> progressive art and traditional forms."
>
> Success for an art student is determined by how early you transfer
> to a liberal arts college.
>
> There sure are a lot of art student amorphisms. Anyone else?
>
> "You know you're an art student when......."
>
> -e.
>
> Reed Altemus wrote:
>
> > AK
> >
> > Professionalism is an anathema. Wearing the trappings of an artist is an
> > anathema.
> > Fluxus Art Amusement is 100% amusement exactly half of the time. The
> > most interesting history of Fluxus is the history which starts with
> > Maciunas and Flynt and ends with mail art, which is an avocation. The
> > most unfortunate part of participating in Fluxlist is that professional
> > artists are allowed to participate also.
> >
> > Words of wisdom today?
> >
> > This list is rife with professionals and art students. I am nearly ready
> > to quit.
> >
> > RA
