Hello to all and sundry of you--
i seem to have missed what the original note is re postacrds--
to whom does one send them, and for what theme?
might someone let me know --i would be as they say eternally
gratefull- (but what if you don't believe in eternity?!--what then--)
amazing to find the word "postcards"--as have been working on many
to send out today!
using spray paint found objects some collaged materials and clay
(cards of course, also--)
at first i thought that perhaps working so long with the rubBEings
of late to complete some proejcts--that working with the clay and
objects at home--i might now be only in the way of finding objects of
use--
yet--of course! one can also make impressions, cats--the opposite
turned inside out of rubBEings--
apply the clay to the found tetterings attached to public private
sights/sites/cites--and carry off the impression--to paint at home or
on street in chosen areas--
one am very fond of is a small area only found in so far--AMERICAN
DARLING--in large solid letterings on fire hydrants!
they are both red and read, so to speak
would this working be called "impressionism?!"
after all, one is making impreeions and also working outdoors!
at time ones also makes an imprssion on a querying person, a
yuppie landlord or tenant--or a nice quiet policeman suddenly standing
there staring down at you
"what you up to buddy?"
when it is explained--of course! what a marvlous idea! i tell him
that i am collecting al sorts of things presenting in my one way a sort
of tour of Milwaukee--
in other words, i am being a good citizen, harming no property--
property is really the key--of just about everything--in the usa,
as i thibnk is written into our Constitution--private
property--rights--written by mainly wealthy land owners who disliked
paying taexs!--to far away England--
was thinking--and learning by noticing--in so many areas of the
city--to avoid taxes and to ensure good property--the hordes now
exited to the suburbs--leaving an immesne burden in many manhy ways--on
those of us who remain--
have learned all sortsof things historical, legal, economic,
health care related--
this is part of why i use only found materials and
sites/sights/cites of streets etc driectly rubBEd--
no property or ownership involved--
to investigate the everyday--"the common thing anonymously about
us"--w.c. willaims--"a poem can be made of anything"--poem cards!--
in uncanny recongitions--
i think postcards are a great fit with al this, as they like Mail
Art are really, it is the communication itself which makes the sense of
community
community./communication--as on postcards, the space is samll--on
ethinks of how best to convey something in thislimited space--and
possibilites open up--
or as they say, truly--"it's the thought that counts"!
onwo/ards--"ride boldy ride" in the mmortal words of Edgar Allen
Poe's "El Dorado"
david-bc
>Subject: FLUXLIST: postcards
>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:10:45 -0800
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>english or español?
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>BIBIANA PADILLA MALTOS
>AVTEXTFEST general coordinator
>Paseo de Vista Hermosa #625
>Mexicali, B.C., 21240
>MEXICO
>233 Paulin Ave. PMB. 7263
>Calexico, Ca., 92231-2646
>U.S.A.
>+ 52 686 564 5999
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>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Cecil Touchon
>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Re: WG: address bibiana
>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:43:34 -0600
>
>As a fun and fundraising event, The Internaional Museum of Collage,
>Assemblage and Construction is asking artists to make a christmas
>(winter holiday) collage card and send to
>
>Cecil Touchon
>IMCAC Collections
>307 Calle de las Piedras
>Cuernavaca, Morelos, MX 62270
>
>The card will be a donation to the museums extensive collection of
>collage art and artists are giving copyright useage to the museum.
>The best submissions will be used for postcard sets for sale for
>christmas 2005. 300 dpi digital collage also accepted (by email)
>
>
>--
>Cecil Touchon
>
